Rock Blasting Terms and Symbols: A Dictionary of Symbols and Terms in Rock Blasting and Related Areas like Drilling, Mining and Rock Mechanics

by Agne Rustan (Editor)

Overview

This dictionary represents today the most extensive rock blasting dictionary available and it is therefore a valuable tool and essential for research and writing reports, papers to international journals.

Terminology is important in the process of development of a science because it is the language for communication between students, teachers, technicians, scientists and practitioners in the field of blasting. This dictionary contains 1,980 terms, 316 symbols, ninety-three acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, 221 references, thirty-one figures, thity-two formulas and twenty-eight tables. In this book, not only short definitions of the terms are presented, but also a quantification of some terms is included, and their relationship to other parameters in blasting is highlighted.

All students, teachers, technicians, engineers, scientists and practioners in the field of blasting should get a copy as a desk reference book. If we all use the same symbols for example, the reading of blasting papers is speeded up and facilitated a lot.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789054104414
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Agne Rustan Division of Mining Engineering, Lulea University of Technology Lulea, Sweden

Table of Contents

Introduction, Terminology list, Notes for the user, List of symbols and abbreviations, Symbols, Greek symbols, Acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, References

Editorial Reviews

"Absolutely essential reading for students, teachers, engineers, earth scientists, etc. in this field ...."

"...and will assist dramatically in ensuring the different specialists are using terms consistently. " 

AMF Reviews 26.

From the Publisher

As the diverse entries in this dictionary demonstrate, rock blasting is a multidisciplinary enterprise encompassing at a minimum: mechanics, rock mechanics, physics, chemistry, geology, geophysics, petrology, seismology, mining engineering, and rock construction engineering. The idea for compiling such a reference was mined from the Third International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting (Brisbane, Australia, 1990). Value- added features include: quantification of select terms; new international standards for some descriptive and operational terms; a list of symbols; acronyms, abbreviations, and shortened forms; graphics, and references. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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