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Rock Mass Classification and Its Use in Blast Design for Tunneling  

Ryu Chang-Ha (한국지질자원연구원)
SunWoo Choon (한국지질자원연구원)
Choi Byung-Hee (한국지질자원연구원)
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Explosives and Blasting / v.24, no.1, 2006 , pp. 63-69 More about this Journal
Abstract
Building tunnels means dealing with what rock is encountered. Relocation of the site of the underground structure is rarely possible. Tunneling engineers and miners have to cope with the quality of the rock mass as it is. Different tunneling philosophies and different rock classification methods have been developed in various countries. Most of the rock classification methods are based on the response of the rock mass to the excavation. Tunnel support requirements could be assessed analytically, supplemented by rock mass classification predictions, and verified by measurements during construction. Rock mass classifications on their own should only be used for preliminary, planning purposes and not for final tunnel support. Design of blast pattern in tunneling projects in Korea is also mostly prepared according to the general rock classification methods such as RMR or Q. They, however, do not take into account the blast performance, and as a consequence, produce poor blasting results. In this paper, the methods of general rock classification and blast design for tunnel excavation in Korea are reviewed, and efforts to develop a new classification method, reflecting the blasting performance, are presented.
Keywords
tunneling; blast design; rock mass classification; B-RMR;
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