Abstract
302 INTRODUCTION Predicting the ease of excavation of rock and rock masses is very significant for defining of technology and organisation of earthworks for civil engineering works and in surface mines. On this important scientific and practical field, several authors gave effort to establish acceptable methodologies for practical use (Franklin et al., 1971), (Atkinson, 1971), (Weaver, 1975), (Kirsten, 1982), (Abdullatif and Cruden, 1983), (Scoble and Muftuoglu, 1984), (Pettifer and Fookes, 1994), (McLean and Gribble, 1985), (Singh et al., 1987), (Church, 1981) and another’s. The reference that gives whole overview on this aspect is given by Tsiambaos and Saroglou (2009) In the present article, the term excavatability is used to determine the ease of excavation of rock and rock masses that includes the methods of digging, ripping and blasting. classification, excavation, technology of excavation, rock masses, parameters
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