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 …

Blasting using decoupled charge is extensively applied in rock excavation and rock
fragmentation. In this study, the rock fragmentation induced by blasting using decoupled …

During excavation using the cut blasting method in deep rock masses, there are difficulties
resulting from the in-situ stress influences. This study uses numerical simulation methods to …

High in-situ stress can limit the generation of rock fractures induced by blasting, which
usually shows different states of rock fragmentation with those under low-stress conditions …

The method of cut blasting is widely used in tunnelling excavation, which concerns the
success in subsequent stop blasting and smooth blasting. Rock masses in deep tunnels are …

Herein, static stress is used to simulate high in-situ stress in a deep rock mass. The effect of
this stress on the fractal characteristics and propagation behavior of blast-induced cracking …

This paper presents a 3D coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and Finite
Element Method (FEM) model, which was developed to investigate the extent of damage …

A series of numerical experiments was performed to simulate rock fragmentation by TBM
disc cutter. We used AUTODYN-3D to simulate three-dimensional dynamic failure observed …

This paper primarily focuses on examining the impact of blasting gas, studying the rock
fracture mechanism of air-deck charge blasting, and analyzing the evolutionary …

A combined finite-discrete element method (FDEM) parallelized on the basis of GPGPU is
implemented to model the rock fracture and fragmentation process and the resultant …