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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Blasting operations

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 542-0919/01
Abbreviation TP
Course title Blasting operations
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Mining Engineering and Safety
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Václav Zubíček, 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

STIG O. Olofsson: Applied explosives technology for construction and mining, Applex AB, Ärla, ISBN 91-7970-63-7, 304 s.
ROY, Pijush Pal. Rock blasting: effects and operations. Leiden: A.A. Balkema, c2005. ISBN 04-1537-230-5.
B.A. KENNEDY.: Surface Mining - 2nd ed.. - Littleton : Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, c1990 - xi, 1194 s. : il., mapy ISBN 0-87335-102-9 (váz.)978-0-87335-102-7

Advised literature

ISEE blasters' handbook. 18th edition. Cleveland: International Society of Explosives Engineers, 2011. ISBN 978-1-892396-19-8 .
ÖZBAYOGLU, Gülhan, ed. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey, IMCET 2003: Antalya, Turkey, 10-13 June 2003. Ankara: Chamber of Mining Engineers of Turkey, c2003. ISBN 975-395-605-3.