This course gives students in engineering or applied science an introduction to drilling and blasting for rock fragmentation. Theory and application of blasting, rock drilling, rock boring and underground excavation will be discussed with specific interest in fragmentation optimization and environmental effect control.
Homework is assigned on covered material basis.
Reading assignments shown on the class schedule should be completed before each class. Since calculations are normally permanent records which may be reviewed by other, it is important that they be neat and arranged in orderly fashion so that each step in the computation can be readily followed.