Comparison of blast-induced ground vibration predictors in Seyitomer coal mine

Abstract

Blast induced vibration is one of the most important environmental problems in various sectors such as mining, quarry, tunneling and pipeline trenching. Therefore, experts in this field study intensively to eliminate these effects. The majority of these studies focus on the generation of equations for forecasting values of blast induced vibrations. However, experts do not seem to have reached a consensus on the issue of forecasting and preventing blast induced vibration. This can be explained by ground conditions and design parameters that are totally different from each other. In this study, for the purpose of determining estimation performances of 11 equations suggested in literature for blast induced vibration, 93 blasts from 3 panels in Seyitomer Coal Mine in Turkey were observed and they were assessed on the basis of these methods and the method with the highest correlation value was determined.