Rock blasting and overbreak control.

• Corporate Authors: United States. Federal Highway Administration, National Highway Institute (U.S.)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: [McLean, Va.] : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, [1991]
• Subjects: Blasting > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Explosives > Study and teaching > United States.; Explosives > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781613440186; 1613440189
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 415 pages) : illustrations
• Access: Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty

This handbook is specifically designed as a guide to highway engineers and blasting practitioners working with highway applications. It was used as a handbook for the FHWA course of the above title. The handbook is a basic review of explosives and their characteristics, along with explosive selection criteria. Initiations and timing effects as well as patterns are also discussed. A simple step by step procedure is outlined to help the engineer review blasting submittals in a systematic fashion. Airblast and ground vibration are discussed along with methods for evaluation and control. Several solved examples are presented in a manner to simplify the necessary calculations with step by step procedures given where appropriate.