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1、Blasting damage in rockThe development of rock mechanics as a practical engineering tool in both underground and surface mining has followed a rather erratic path. Only the most naively optimistic amongst us would claim that the end of the road has been reached and that the subject has matured into
2、a fully developed applied science. On the other hand, there have been some real advances which only the most cynical would discount.One of the results of the erratic evolutionary path has been the emergence of different rates of advance of different branches of the subject of rock mechanics. Leading
3、 the field are subjects such as the mechanics of slope instability, the monitoring of movement in surface and underground excavations and the analysis of induced stresses around underground excavations. Trailing the field are subjects such as the rational design of tunnel support, the movement of gr
4、oundwater through jointed rock masses and the measurement of in situ stresses. Bringing up the rear are those areas of application where rock mechanics has to interact with other disciplines and one of these areas involves the influence of blasting upon the stability of rock excavations.Historical p
5、erspectiveBy far the most common technique of rock excavation is that of drilling and blasting.From the earliest days of blasting with blac powder, there have been steady developments in Our understanding of the mechanics of rock breakage by explosives.It is not the development in blasting technolog
6、y that is of interest in this discussion. 1t is the application of this technology to the creation of excavations in rock and the influence of the excavation techniques upon the stability of the remaining rock.As is frequently the case in engineering, subjects that develop as separate disciplines te
7、nd to develop in isolation. Hence, a handful of highly skilled and dedicated researchers, frequently working in association with explosives manufacturers, have developed techniques for producing optimum fragmentation and minimising damage in blasts. At the other end of the spectrum are miners who ha
8、ve learned their blasting skills by traditional apprenticeship methods, and who are either not familiar with the specialist blasting control techniques or are not convinced that the results obtained from the use of these techniques justify the effort and expense. At fault in this system are owners a
9、nd managers who are more concerned with cost than with safety and design or planning engineers who see both sides but are not prepared to get involved because they view blasting as a black art with the added threat of severe legal penalties for errors.The need to change the present system is not wid
10、ely recognised because the impact of blasting damage upon the stability of structures in rock is not widely recognised or understood It is the authors aim, in the remainder of this chapter, to explore this subject and to identify the causes of blast damage and to suggest possible improvements in the
11、 system.A discussion on the influence of excavation processes upon the stability of rock structures would not be complete without a discussion on machine excavation. The ultimate in excavation techniques, which (cave the rock as undisturbed as possible, is the full-face tunnelling machine. Partial f
12、ace machines or readheaders, when used correctly, will also inflict very little damage on the rock. The characteristics of tunnelling machines will not be discussed here but comparisons will be drawn between the amount of damage caused by these machines and by blasting.Blasting damageIt appears to m
13、e, a casual reader of theoretical papers on blasting, that the precise nature of the mechanism of rock fragmentation as a result of detonation of an explosive charge is not fully understood. However, from a practical point of view, it seems reasonable to accept that both the dynamic stresses induced
14、 by the detonation and the expanding gases produced by the explosion play important roles in the fragmentation process.Duvall and Fogelson (1962), Langefors and 1Chilstmm (1973) and others, have published blast damage criteria for buildings and other surface structures. Almost all of these criteria
15、relare blast damage to peak particle velocity resulting from the dynamic stresses induced by the explosion. While it is generally recognised that gas pressure assists in the rock fragmentation process, there has been little attempt to quantify this damage.Work on the strength of jointed rock masses
16、suggests that this strength is influenced by the degree of interlocking between individual rock blocks separated by discontinuities such as bedding planes and joints. For all practical purposes, the tensile strength of these discontinuities can be taken as uro, and a small amount of opening or shear
17、 displacement will result in a dramatic drop in the interlocking of the individual blocks. It is easy to visualise how the high pressure gases expanding outwards from an explosion will jet into these discontinuities and cause a breakdown of this important block interlocking. Obviously, the amount of
18、 damage or strength reduction will vary with distance from the explosive charge, and also with the in situ stresses which have to be overcome by the high pressure gases before loosening of the rock can take place. Consequently, the extent of the gas pressure induced damage can be expected to decreas
19、e with depth below surface, and surface structures such as slopes will be very susceptible to gas pressure induced blast damage.An additional cause of blast damage is that of fracturing induced by release of load (Hagan, 1982). This mechanism is best explained by the analogy of dropping a heavy stee
20、l plate onto a pile of rubber mats. These rubber mats are compressed until the momentum of the falling steel plate has been exhausted. The highly compressed rubber mats then accclcrate the plate in the opposite direction and, in ejecting it vertically upwards, separate from each other. Such separati
21、on between adjacent layers explains the tension fractures frequently observed in open pit and strip mine operations where poor blasting practices encourage pit wall instability. McIntyre and Hagan (1976) report vertical cracks parallel m and up to 55 m behind newly created open pit mine faces where
22、large muld-row blasts have been used.Whether or not one agrees with the postulated mechanism of release of load fracturing, the fact that cracks can be induced at very considerable distance from the point of detonation of an explosive must be a cause for serious concern. Obviously, these fractures,
23、whatever their cause, will have a major disruptive effect upon the integrity of the rock mass and this, in turn, will cause a reduction in overall stability.Hoek (1975) has argued that blasting will not induce deep seated instability in large open pit mine slopes. This is because the failure surface
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