Blasting operations can fragment rock mass into smaller pieces and meanwhile induce vibration anddamage in remaining rock mass. A series of small-scale laboratory tests were carried out to investigatethe effects of short delay times on fragmentation. These tests were modeled using a coupledFEM-BPM-PBM model in the LS-DYNA code. In the model, the remaining rock is representedby a finite element model (FEM) and the rock to be blasted is represented by a bonded particlemodel (BPM). The detonation of explosives is described with a particle blast method (PBM). Thefragment size distribution was obtained with a code developed in Perl programming language. Theblast-induced vibration and damage in the remaining rock mass were evaluated. The results showthat the coupled FEM-BPM-PBM model can be employed to evaluate both fragmentation in theblasted domain and the blast-induced damage and vibration in the remaining rock mass.
Validerad;2019;Nivå 1;2019-07-05 (johcin)