Blasting Design

 

Manufactures Handbooks

Blasters Handbook  (DuPont Blasting Manual)

Explosives and Rock Blasting  (Atlas Powder Blasting Manual)

Handbook of Drilling and Blasting (Tamrock Manual  1984)

 

Leading Authors and Authorities

Surface Blast Design  by Calvin Konya (Founder of Society of Explosives Engineers) 1990

Blasting Principles for Open Pit Mining   by William Hustrulid  Balkema 1999 (excerpts)

Drilling and Blasting of Rocks  (1995)

Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering (1994 - excerpts)

Blast Vibration Monitoring and Control  by Charles H. Dowding 1985

Blasting Operations (1981 excerpts) by Gary Hemphill

Explosives for North American Engineers  (1979 - excerpts)

Swedish Blasting Technique  (1973 excerpts)

 

Handbook Excerpts

SME Mining Engineering Handbook  1973 ed. Sec 11  Fragmentation

Government Guidance Documents and Studies

OSM's 1987 Blasting Guidance Manual.pdf