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Front. Struct. Civ. Eng.    2010, Vol. 4 Issue (2) : 223-232    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-010-0022-5
Research articles
Simulation of blast induced crater in jointed rock mass by discontinuous deformation analysis method
Youjun NING1,Xinmei AN1,Jun YANG2,Guowei MA3,
1.School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore; 2.State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; 3.School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore;School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia;
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Abstract Rock blasting is a dynamic process accompanied with the propagations of shock waves and the dispersion of the explosion gas. This paper adopts the discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method to simulate the rock blasting process. A dynamic parameter adjustment and the non-reflecting boundary condition are implemented in the DDA method. The sub-block DDA method to simulate fracture problems is used. The blasting process in jointed rock mass is simulated by application of the explosion gas pressure on the expanding borehole walls and induced connected fracture surfaces around the boreholes. The blast craters with different overburdens are derived. The whole process including the explosion gas dispersion, borehole expansion, rock mass failure and cast, and the formation of the final blasting piles in rock blasting are well reproduced numerically. Parametric study for different overburdens is carried out, and the results are analyzed and discussed.
Keywords blast crater      jointed rock mass      explosion gas pressure      discontinuous deformation analysis (DDA) method      
Issue Date: 05 June 2010
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Youjun NING,Xinmei AN,Jun YANG, et al. Simulation of blast induced crater in jointed rock mass by discontinuous deformation analysis method[J]. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng., 2010, 4(2): 223-232.
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