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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Blasting operations for quarrying and safety at work

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0006/01
Abbreviation TPPD a BP
Course title Blasting operations for quarrying and safety at work
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Milan Mikoláš, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1) Act n. 61/1988 Coll. the mining activities, explosives and state mining administration, as amended.
2) Ordinance n. 72/1988 Coll. the use of explosives.
3) Basic concepts of blasting, the distribution and characteristics of the TP, the storage of explosives.
4) Blasting technology, their properties, and handling.
5) Blasting technology, construction and distribution charges.
6) Types of initiation - electric, non-electric, electronics and others.
7) Modern means of blasting technique.
8) Occupational Health and Safety with explosives.
9) Principles of geology, surveying, drilling work.
10) Determination of the basic parameters of the bench, line and combined blasting.
11) Projecting large-scale blasting.
12) Secondary blasting.
13) Harmful effects of explosion (air pressure, wave flight of material, toxicity fumes, seismic effects).
14) Act n. 500/2004 Coll. administrative Code, as amended.
15) Brief types of blasting.

Literature

KENNEDY, Bruce A., ed. Surface mining. 2nd ed. Littleton: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c1990. ISBN 0-87335-102-9.

Advised literature

OLOFSSON, Stig O. Applied explosives technology for construction and mining. Second edition. Ärla: Applex AB, [2002]. ISBN 91-970111-2-6 .