Journal
APPLIED SOFT COMPUTING
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2022.109343
Keywords
Air-overpressure; Rock blasting; Machine learning; Radial basis function network
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Blasting operations are commonly used in Civil and Mining Engineering for rock breakage, but they can cause severe damages to surrounding areas. This study develops a machine learning model to predict the air-overpressure induced by blasting, with the proposed RBF-2 network performing better than other models.
Blasting operations are the most conventional and frequently used rock breakage approach in the field of Civil and Mining Engineering. However, the side effects induced by blasting may cause severe damages to surrounding areas. Air-overpressure (AOp) is one of the side effects induced by blasting operations, which is defined as the air pressure wave generated by blasting operation that exceeds normal atmospheric pressure. It can result in potential structural damage and glass breaking and therefore needs to be well predicted and subsequently minimized. In this study, 76 sets of blasting data were collected to develop a predictive model to estimate AOp value. However, due to the small size of dataset, it is hard to determine the complexity of the model. Therefore, for the purpose of developing a machine learning model with appropriate complexity, a radial basis function network with an additional second hidden layer (RBF-2) is proposed, which is trained by incremental design principle and modified Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The performance of the proposed RBF-2 is compared with those of five other machine learning techniques, i.e., multilayer perceptron (MLP), RBF, MLP optimized by genetic algorithm (GA-MLP), multi adaptive regression spline (MARS) and random forest (RF). The results demonstrate that the proposed RBF-2 network outperforms other models with RMSE of 2.02/1.98, MAPE of 1.32%/1.40%, and R of 0.9828/0.9735 in training/testing stage. Findings revealed that the proposed RBF-2 network emerged as the most efficient, powerful and robust technique in predicting blast induced AOp compared with other machine learning models. (C) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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