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JOURNAL OF ROCK MECHANICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 282-290Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrmge.2014.12.005
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Blasting damage; Vibration monitoring; Adjacent tunnel development; Dynamic loading of friction bolts; Jinduicheng Molybdenum; Wolverine Mine; Yukon Zinc
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Following a small-scale wedge failure at Yukon Zinc's Wolverine Mine in Yukon, Canada, a vibration monitoring program was added to the existing rockbolt pull testing regime. The failure in the 1150 drift occurred after numerous successive blasts in an adjacent tunnel had loosened friction bolts passing through an unmapped fault. Analysis of blasting vibration revealed that support integrity is not compromised unless there is a geological structure to act as a failure plane. The peak particle velocity (PPV) rarely exceeded 250 mm/s with a frequency larger than 50 Hz. As expected, blasting more competent rock resulted in higher PPVs. In such cases, reducing the round length from 3.5 m to 2.0 m was an effective means of limiting potential rock mass and support damage. (C) 2015 Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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