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Evaluation and comparison of ground vibration predictors at
Tourah quarry- Egypt

Research Authors
SAEED S. ABD EL HAFIZ1 MOSTAFA TANTAWY1, SUGENG WAHYUDI2, HIDEKI SHIMADA2, KIKUO MATSUI2, ELSEMAN ABDEL-RASOUL1, M. ABDEL TAWAB ELGENDI3, and M.M. El-BEBLAWY1
Research Year
2010
Research Journal
Journal of MMIJ
Research Vol
vol.126-no.1
Research Rank
1
Research_Pages
18-23
Research Abstract

The present paper mainly deals with the prediction of blast-induced ground vibration level at Tourah Mine in Egypt. The safe charge of explosive and peak particle velocity (PPV) were recorded for 79 blast events (79 blast data sets) at various distances. These datasets were used and analyzed by the widely used vibration predictors. From the six predictors, vibration levels were calculated and compared with new monitored 15 blast data sets. Again, the same data sets were used to validate and test the three-layer feed-forward back-propagation neural network to predict the PPV. Different propagations equations were derived by using the shapes of the selected predictors formulae. It is found that among all the predictors, ANN provides very near prediction with high degree of correlation.