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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Effect of Discontinuities

Q.1: What are the typical discontinuities present in rocks?
       A. joints,faults,fracture,bedding plane,foliations, slicken side etc.
Q2. What is the effect of discontinuities in  rock blasting ?
       A. Boulder formation, sudden drop in blast hole pressure, overbreak ,poor fragmentation,insufficient utilisation og shock energy and gas energy.
Q3. What is the effect of discontinuities on ground vibration ?
   






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