Swebrec - Blasting Research
Swebrec is a part of the Division of mining and geotechnical engineering at the Department of
Civil, Environmental and Natural resources engineering.
Mission
- Give stakeholders of important research
- Be the leading R & D group in civil blasting
Swebrec Research Areas
Explosives properties - detonics
- Cylinder expansion tests &camp; effects
Rock fragmentation
- Optimisation of blasting-crushing
- Bench blasting model
- Blasting against compacted rock
- Size distributions of blasted rock
- Fragmentation in sublevel caving
- Potential of image analysis
Blast damage
- Smaller production holes in open pits
- Damage around production holes
Blast vibrations
- Lower vibration levels from production blasts
