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Neuro-fuzzy technique to predict air-overpressure induced by blasting

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In addition to all benefits of blasting in mining and civil engineering applications, blasting has some undesirable impacts on surrounding areas. Blast-induced air-overpressure (AOp) is one of the most important environmental impacts of blasting operation which may cause severe damage to nearby residents and structures. Hence, it is a major concern to predict and subsequently control the AOp due to blasting. This paper presents an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) model for prediction of blast-induced AOp in quarry blasting sites. For this purpose, 128 blasting operations were monitored in three quarry sites, Malaysia. Several models were constructed to obtain the optimum model in which each model involved five inputs and one output. Values of maximum charge per delay, powder factor, burden to spacing ratio, stemming length, and distance between monitoring station and blast face were set as input parameters to predict AOp. For comparison purposes, considering the same data, AOp values were predicted through the pre-developed artificial neural network (ANN) model and multiple regression (MR) technique. The results demonstrated the superiority of the ANFIS model to predict AOp compared to other methods. Moreover, results of sensitivity analysis indicated that the maximum charge per delay and powder factor and distance from the blast face are the most influential parameters on AOp.

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The authors would like to extend their appreciation to the Government of Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for the FRGS grant no. 4F406 and for providing the required facilities that made this research possible.

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  1. Department of Geotechnics and Transportation, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Danial Jahed Armaghani, Houman Sohaei, Edy Tonnizam Mohamad & Aminaton Marto

  2. Construction Research Alliance, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Mohsen Hajihassani

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran

    Hossein Motaghedi

  4. South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Reza Moghaddam

  5. Saman Zamin Hamgam Engineering Company, Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad Reza Moghaddam

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Jahed Armaghani, D., Hajihassani, M., Sohaei, H. et al. Neuro-fuzzy technique to predict air-overpressure induced by blasting. Arab J Geosci 8, 10937–10950 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12517-015-1984-3

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