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Publication date: 5 March 2018

Hajar Eskandar, Elham Heydari, Mahdi Hasanipanah, Mehrshad Jalil Masir and Ali Mahmodi Derakhsh

Blasting is an economical method for rock breakage in open-pit mines. Backbreak is an undesirable phenomenon induced by blasting operations and has several unsuitable effects such…

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Abstract

Purpose

Blasting is an economical method for rock breakage in open-pit mines. Backbreak is an undesirable phenomenon induced by blasting operations and has several unsuitable effects such as equipment instability and decreased performance of the blasting. Therefore, accurate estimation of backbreak is required for minimizing the environmental problems. The primary purpose of this paper is to propose a novel predictive model for estimating the backbreak at Shur River Dam region, Iran, using particle swarm optimization (PSO).

Design/methodology/approach

For this work, a total of 84 blasting events were considered and five effective factors on backbreak including spacing, burden, stemming, rock mass rating and specific charge were measured. To evaluate the accuracy of the proposed PSO model, multiple regression (MR) model was also developed, and the results of two predictive models were compared with actual field data.

Findings

Based on two statistical metrics [i.e. coefficient of determination (R2) and root mean square error (RMSE)], it was found that the proposed PSO model (with R2 = 0.960 and RMSE = 0.08) can predict backbreak better than MR (with R2 = 0.873 and RMSE = 0.14).

Originality/value

The analysis indicated that the specific charge is the most effective parameter on backbreak among all independent parameters used in this study.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 35 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment, vol. 4 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2633-6596

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