Blasting Engineering: Planning and Recommended Textbook for the Guidance Committee of Civil Engineering Majors in Universities

Author: Dong Zhaoxing
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a textbook for higher education institutions under the "Tenth Five-Year Plan," intended for students and faculty of civil engineering programs in universities and colleges within the systems of coal, metallurgy, railways, military industry, and urban construction. It is also available for reference use by engineering technicians engaged in scientific research, design, and construction. The book is divided into eight chapters. Chapter 1 outlines the role of blasting engineering, as well as blasting methods and techniques; Chapter 2 introduces explosive materials and initiation methods; Chapter 3 provides a comprehensive introduction to the basic theory of explosive reactions; Chapter 4 details the fundamental theory of explosions in soil and rock; Chapter 5 offers a detailed discussion of cut-and-fill blasting, smooth blasting, and delay blasting in underground engineering, along with their corresponding construction techniques; Chapter 6 covers surface blasting methods such as naked charge blasting, deep-hole blasting, slope excavation control blasting, and chamber blasting in open-air blasting projects; Chapter 7 provides a detailed introduction to the blasting demolition of foundations, chimneys, water towers, buildings, and bridges; Chapter 8 introduces the main drilling methods and equipment.