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There presently exists disagreement with regard to the mechanism that is reponsible for the fragmentation that occurs in quarry blasting operations. The particular contribution of gas pressurization as opposed to stress wave initiation has not been clearly established. The various schools of thought range from the notion that gas pressurization plays the dominant role [1–5], to the idea that combinations of the stress waves and gas pressurization are responsible for the major amount of damage [6–8] to the thought that stress waves alone [9–11] are responsible for the resulting fragmentation.
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Fourney, W.L. (1983). Fragmentation Studies with Small Flaws. In: Rossmanith, H.P. (eds) Rock Fracture Mechanics. International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, vol 275. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-2750-6_10
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