Integration and Optimization of Blasting, Crushing, and Grinding at the Newmont Ahafo Operation , This is followed by modelling and simulation studies to determine how to best exploit hidden inefficienci These recommendations are then followed by further site visits to implement the changes, monitor the results and ensure the improvements ....
Harvey, Jean-Phillipe and Gheribi, Aïmen 2014 Process Simulation and Control Optimization of a Blast Furnace Using Classical Thermodynamics Combined to a Direct Search Algorithm Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 45 1 pp 307-327...
Ballistics Blast Courtesy of US Army - ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal Problems of ballistics and blast are highly dynamic, involve complex nonlinear mechanical phenomena such as failure and plasticity, and often require the modeling of multiple physical domains such as underwater explosions or UNDEX...
A Homogenization Approach for Design and Simulation of Blast Resistant Composites Michael Sheyka , Energy Approach for Design Optimization of Blast Resistant Composites, Proceeding of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Coference ,...
Simulation and Model Validation of Ring Blasting Designs - What? - Why? Explosive Energy Distribution and the real effects on Fragmentation and Damage...
MAXAM Foundation - MAXAM Chair - Blasting solutions In collaboration with the The Mining and Industry Museum of Asturias MUMI and the Superior Technical School of Mining and Energy Engineers of ,...
A state-of-the-art collection of articles on developments in rock blasting and explosives engineering, with contributions on rock characterization, explosives and initiation systems, blast design and monitoring, fragmentation assessment, numerical modeling, vibrations from blasting, environmental and economical aspects of rock blasting, and more...
Comparison and Optimization of Blast Furnace Tuyere Designs Design of Sinter Cooler Simulation Pre-Processor Software Development of Blast Furnace Operation Stability Monitoring Program , Simulation and Optimization of Alternative Ironmaking Process...
Network simulation software is designed to model the potential behaviors of computer networks These applications allow network engineers and other information technology IT personnel to simulate scenarios without a test bed of networked computers....
In this article, a computer-aided design and optimization method is proposed the program is mainly implemented using the Standard C ANSI C 19 Fig 3 shows the major steps to establish a computer-aided ring blasting design and simulation system The detailed steps are given as follows...
Ring Blasting Design Modeling and Optimization María Rocha, Rocha Blast Engineers, Spain , Blast energy simulation allows identifying contours of rock breakage and fragmentation, thus , of the blasting optimization is shown...
Blast optimization at Kriel Colliery by AM Neale Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of BEng Mining , A simulation was developed in Microsoft Excel to model blasting results while changing various parameters From the simulation results, it could be seen that a change of blast ,...
Shotplan and Winblast are two of the blasting simulation software tools currently available to help design the initiation timing for a shot The use of the simulation tools...
Mathematical Problems in Engineering is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal that publishes results of rigorous engineering research carried out using mathematical tools Contributions containing formulations or results related to applications are also encouraged...
A payoff is a single number that summarizes a simulation which is necessary to be defined before running an optimization The payoff for a model can be described in terms of a comparison between model variables and actual data, or as a combination of model variabl...
The practice of smooth blasting is applied to minimize the extent of damage around a blasthole In normal blasting situations, the extensive damage is concentrated around the blasthole and fracture propagation is uncontrolled However, in smooth blasting, the development of the damage zone is restricted and the fracture initiation and propagation is controlled...
NPV Scheduler provides a complete strategic open pit mine planning system with functionality spanning everything from pit optimization, pushback generation, cut-off grade optimization, scheduling, haulage optimization and stockpile management...
Integration of numerical codes and mine planning Software in visualization of 2D bench blasting IR Firth DL Taylor Mackay School of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno USA ABSTRACT The use of Itasca s Universal Distinct Element Code UDEC and the Surpac mine planning package is described in simulating a typical open pit bench blast...
To achieve the optimum charge scheme at the collar of the ring in ring blasting, a new computer-aided design and fragment simulation optimization program ,...
A global optimization strategy was designed in the current study based on the 5-unit thermodynamic process simulation to ensure that the overall mass and heat balances of the system are simultaneously respected at the end of the simulation...
ICAM Technologies Corporation is an international company specializing in the development and implementation of advanced NC post-processing and machine tool simulation solutions for manufacturers in every major industry around the world...
This method provides an effective method for optimization of the blasting parameters and has important guiding significance for efficient and economical mining , The second type is the numerical simulation of the blasting crater formation process...
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Comparing the relationship of explosive and blasting structure simulated by adopting Lagrange method and ALE method, the paper considers that Lagrange method is more close to practice, and could finish numerical simulation analysis of the intact rock blasting...
An example of this kind of optimization is the optimal blasting design in order to achieve lower costs as possible This can be done by two ways decreasing the energy consumption in crushing and grinding due a smaller particle size or increasing the plant throughput ,...
Keywords Rock bursts Stress-relief blasting Numerical simulation Effect validation Mechanism to weaken shock , optimization technique, by which a typical minority testing scheme can be selected under a variety of test conditions 11 then, by analyzing their results, one can determine the ....
During excavation using the cut blasting method in deep rock masses, there are difficulties resulting from the in-situ stress influenc This study uses numerical simulation methods to assess the causes of the difficulties encountered in cut blasting...
Generates blast plan and according to the delay pattern structure, simulation BLA st DES igner Software BLADES calculates blast plan parameters, explosives charge distribution, initiation timing and sequence, results in terms of rock breakage and fragment size distribution...
Comparison of Blast-Induced Damage Between Presplit and Smooth Blasting of High Rock Slope , blasting damage numerical simulation technology based on , knowledge about the optimization for contour blasting of high rock slope based on the control of the BID...
robot cell layout optimization and robot offline programming of multiple robots in very narrow brown field robot-cells with only millimeters of space simulation and programming of cleaning robots where the cleaning result ie the removal of dust etc was predicted very accurately and expensive tests were avoided/ reduced...