Blast case study

Stacey, T. R. Cameron-Clarke, Mival, K. (1990). Stabilisation of old workings by blasting Case study of a failed experiment. In Brummer (Ed.), Static and dynamic considerations of Rock Engineering, Balkema, Rotterdam, pp.317-324. 

In this section, three examples of blast calculations of BLEVEs and pressure vessel bursts will be given. The first example is designed to illustrate the use of all three methods described in Section 6.3.2. The second is a continuation of sample problem 9.1.5, the BLEVE of a tank truck. A variation in the calculation method is presented instead of determination of the blast parameters at a given distance from the explosion, the distance is calculated at which a given overpressure is reached. The third example is a case study of a BLEVE in San Juan Ixhuatepec (Mexico City). 

In this case study, one of the strongest blast-generating BLEVEs to occur in the Mexico City incident (Section 2.4.3, Pietersen 1985), will be investigated. This BLEVE occurred a few minutes after the initial vapor cloud explosion and probably involved two 1600-m spheres. The spheres were probably 50% full at the time of the accident. 

Liu, Q., Tran, H., Coimter, D., Andrieux, P. (1998). A case study of blast damage evaluation in open stope mining at Kidd Creek mines. In the... 

The type of blasthole stoping technique presented in this case study mine varies according to stope sequence and ore zone width. For each type of stope, blasting design practices have been standardized in terms of drilled hole diameter, range of powder factor, and the type and pattern of the explosives used. 

Production Blast-Induced Vibrations in Longhole Open Stoping A Case Study. 

As previously mentioned, the case-study in this work is the incident of Feyzin (France). The effects, due to the fireball and the blast wave of the whole scenario, were investigated by Torok et al. (2011). Lisi et al. (2014b) used this case-study to estimate the impact probability of fragments, produced by spherical vessels, by the application of the procedure described in Section 2 their work allowed a further validation of the method. 

We describe here two case studies of application of Kimeme, to exemplify its applicability to engineering and industrial problems. The first case study is a classic structural engineering design problem, shown here for illustration purpose only. The second application is a complex multi-objective metallurgical problem related to the optimization of productivity and C02 emission of a blast furnace. 

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