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<p>The unprecedented increase, in the last decades, of risks, hazards and threats to the vital objectives of states and international bodies, simultaneously with the increase in their number and vulnerability, led to the sedimentation and establishment of the new concept generically called critical infrastructure. The sites where explosives are manufactured, stored and used can be considered as critical infrastructures, especially taking into account the criterion of the extent, the amplitude of the effects of an explosion produced but also the possible severity on the economic activity, the public and the environment. From this perspective, this article presents an analytical tool for modeling the dispersion of material fragments generated by the detonation of explosives based on the quantification of the impact of the throwing speed and the mass of the material fragments, taking into account the type of material and the loading conditions of the resulting debris. The developed tool resorts to the use of a statistical function, namely the probability density function for modeling different types of fragments resulting from explosion-type events.</p>
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The unprecedented increase, in the last decades, of risks, hazards and threats to the vital objectives of states and international bodies, simultaneously with the increase in their number and vulnerability, led to the sedimentation and establishment of the new concept generically called critical infrastructure. The sites where explosives are manufactured, stored and used can be considered as critical infrastructures, especially taking into account the criterion of the extent, the amplitude of the effects of an explosion produced but also the possible severity on the economic activity, the public and the environment. From this perspective, this article presents an analytical tool for modeling the dispersion of material fragments generated by the detonation of explosives based on the quantification of the impact of the throwing speed and the mass of the material fragments, taking into account the type of material and the loading conditions of the resulting debris. The developed tool resorts to the use of a statistical function, namely the probability density function for modeling different types of fragments resulting from explosion-type events.

Analytical Tool for Modeling the Dispersion of Material Fragments Generated by Explosives Blasting

Mining Revue

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The unprecedented increase, in the last decades, of risks, hazards and threats to the vital objectives of states and international bodies, simultaneously with...

Analytical Tool for Modeling the Dispersion of Material Fragments Generated by Explosives Blasting

Data publikacji: 11 sty 2023

Zakres stron: 70 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minrv-2022-0032

Słowa kluczowe
explosives, blasting, fragment dispersion, debris, probability density, kinetic energy

© 2022 Victor Gabriel Vasilescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Analytical Tool for Modeling the Dispersion of Material Fragments Generated by Explosives Blasting

Data publikacji: 11 sty 2023

Zakres stron: 70 - 78

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/minrv-2022-0032

Słowa kluczoweexplosives, blasting, fragment dispersion, debris, probability density, kinetic energy

© 2022 Victor Gabriel Vasilescu et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Słowa kluczowe
explosives, blasting, fragment dispersion, debris, probability density, kinetic energy