Abstract
The quality of contour blasting depends on many initial blasting parameters. The parameters including blasthole diameter, rock Protodyakonov coefficient, tunnel area and distance between cracks on the tunnel face are more important. In this study, an algorithm linking between Delphi programming language and AutoCAD was created to develop a tunnel blasting model. Using this model, tunnel contour blasting passport in AutoCAD can be obtained automatically. The effects of rock Protodyakonov coefficient and cracks’ distance on blastholes number and specific charge with the variation of blasthole diameter and the semi-circular tunnel face area were investigated to yield a set of equations with the highest correlations. The results show that specific charge increases as rock Protodyakonov coefficient, cracks’ distance and drillhole diameter increase, but decreases when tunnel face area increases. In addition, the number of drillholes increases linearly as tunnel face area increases but decreases when drillhole diameter increases.
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