COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FRAGMENTATION MODELS FOR UNDERGROUND BLASTING

Abstract

This work was carried out in the context of an internship at the company O-Pitblast, as part of creating and developing UG software. During the work, topics such as the prediction of rock mass fragmentation in a tunnel were addressed moving on to explaining the functioning of the different models, along with the entire workflow and the formulas used by each of them are addressed. The Kuz- Ram and Swebrec models were studied to predict tunnel blast fragmentation, in which case study of a Finish mine (Kittila) was used, and the modelled curves were compared with the actual curve taken from a blast.