Drilling and blasting remain the preferred technique used for rock mass breaking in mining
and construction projects compared to other methods from an economic and productivity …

Background: Blasting is commonly used for loosening hard rock during excavation for
generating the desired rock fragmentation required for optimizing the productivity of …

In civil engineering applications, piles (deep foundations) are pushed into the ground in
order to perform as steady support of structures. As these type of foundations are able to …

In mining and civil engineering applications, a reliable and proper analysis of ground
vibration due to quarry blasting is an extremely important task. While advances in machine …

Blasting operations usually produce significant environmental problems which may cause
severe damage to the nearby areas. Air-overpressure (AOp) is one of the most important …

In this study, two powerful techniques, namely particle swarm optimization (PSO) and
imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) were selected and combined with a pre-developed …

Appropriate prediction of rock fragmentation is a vital task in the blasting operations of open
pit mines. Rock fragmentation is affected by various parameters including blast pattern and …

A reliable prediction of the soil properties mixed with recycled material is considered as an
ultimate goal of many geotechnical laboratory works. In this study, after planning and …

Strength and deformation characteristics of a rock play a remarkable role in designing any
geotechnical structure connected to rock mass. This study aims to propose a practical …

Despite the vast usage of machine learning techniques to solve engineering problems, a
very limited number of studies on the rock brittleness index (BI) have used these techniques …