Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Rock Drilling Methods
2. Rotary Percussive Drilling
3. Rotary Percussive Drilling Accessories
4. Rotary Drilling with Rolling Tricone Bits
5. Rolling Cone Rock Bits
6. Rotary Drilling with Cutting Action
7. Special Drilling Methods and Mounting Systems
8. Compressors
9. Thermochemistry of Explosives and the Detonation Process
10. Properties of Explosives
11. Industrial Explosives
12. Explosive Selection Criteria
13. Blasting Accessories
14. Initiation and Priming Systems
15. Mechanized Systems for Charging and Dewatering Blastholes
16. Mechanics of Rock Breakage
17. Rock and Rock Mass Properties and their Influence on the Result of Blasting
18. Characterization of the Rock Masses For Blast Designing
19. Controllable Parameters of Blasting
20. Bench Blasting
21. Blasting in other Surface Operations
22. Blasting for Tunnels and Drifts
23. Shafts Sinking and Raise Driving
24. Underground Production Blasting in Mining and Civil Engineering
25. Counter Blasting
26. Underwater Blasting
27. Initiation Sequence and Delay Timing
28. Evaluation of Blast Results
29. Secondary Fragmentation and Special Blastings
30. Planning the Work of Drilling and Blasting
31. Structure and Building Demolition
32. Optimization Costs of Fragmentation with Drilling and Blasting
33. Land Vibrations, Air Blast and their Control
34. Flyrocks and their Control
35. Safety Measures fro Drilling and Blasting Operations
Conversion factors
General Information, Weight of Materials
Glossary
Subject Index