Drilling and Blasting detailed Syllabus for Mining Engineering (Mining), 2018 scheme has been taken from the VTUs official website and presented for the VTU students. For Course Code, Subject Names, Teaching Department, Paper Setting Board, Theory Lectures, Tutorial, Practical/Drawing, Duration in Hours, CIE Marks, Total Marks, Credits and other information do visit full semester subjects post given below. The Syllabus PDF files can also be downloaded from the official website of the university.
For all other VTU Mining 3rd Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme, do visit VTU Mining 3rd Sem Syllabus for BE 2018 Scheme Subjects. The detailed Syllabus for drilling and blasting is as follows.
Course Learning Objectives:
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Module-1
Exploration Drilling: Boring for exploration; Various types of exploratory drills and their applicability -Auger, Cable-tool, Odex, Core Drills; Core recovery: single and double tube core barrels, wire line core barrel; Storage of cores; Interpretation of borehole data.
Module-2
Rock drilling methods: Introduction; Types of drilling operations used in rock breakage; Applicability and limitations of different drilling methods vis-a-vis rock types and hole diameter. Percussive & Rotary percussive drilling: Introduction; Fundamentals of percussive & rotary percussive drilling; Top hammer drilling; Down the hole hammer drilling; Advance systems; Drilling parameters and their estimation. Rotary drilling: Introduction; Fundamentals of rotary drilling; Drilling parameters and their estimation. Special drilling methods: Introduction; Jet piercing; Water-jet drilling.
Module-3
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Module-4
Drilling & Blasting in Surface Mines Drilling: Blasthole drills – types, classification, applicability and limitations; Mechanics of drilling, performance parameters, drilling cost, compressed air requirement for hole cleaning; Selection of drilling systems, drilling errors, organization of drilling. Blasting: Mechanics of rock fragmentation; Livingstone theory of crater formation; Factors affecting blasting, Blast design – estimation of burden and spacing, estimation of charge requirement; Initiation patterns; Secondary blasting – pop and plaster shooting; Problems associated with blasting, Ground vibration and air over pressure, Blast instrumentation.
Module-5
Drilling & Blasting in Underground Mines Coal mines: Drilling systems and their applicability, blasting-off-solid, different blasting cuts, ring hole blasting, calculation of specific charge, specific drilling and detonator factor, initiation patterns. Metal mines: Drilling systems and their applicability, blast design for horizontal drivages, different blasting cuts, long hole blasting, vertical crater retreat blasting.
Course Outcomes:
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Question Paper Pattern:
- The question paper will have ten full questions carrying equal marks.
- Each full question will be for 20 marks.
- There will be two full questions (with a maximum of four sub- questions) from each module.
- Each full question will have sub- question covering all the topics under a module.
- The students will have to answer five full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
Text Books:
- Explosives and Blasting Practices S.K. Das Lovely Prakashan, 1993
- Explosives and Blasting G.K. Pradhan, Minetech Publication 1996
Reference Books:
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