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

This dictionary contains 1980 terms, 325 symbols, 77 acronyms, abbreviations and shortened forms, 221 references, 32 figures, 57 formulae, and 28 tables. In addition to short definitions a quantification of some terms is included, and their relationship to other parameters in blasting is highlighted.