Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Registration Open
Registration Open
8.30 am - 8.40 am
Welcome from the Symposium Co-chairs: Trevor Little MAusIMM and Alex Spathis MAusIMM, FRAGBLAST11 Co-chairs
8.40 am - 8.50 am
Welcome to Country: Uncle Allen Madden, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council
8.50 am - 9.00 am
9.00 am - 9.10 am
ISEE Welcome: Winston Forde, Executive Director, International Society of Explosives Engineers and Mike Koehler, President
International Society of Explosives Engineers
SESSION 1: Opening of FRAGBLAST11 and Keynote I
Grand Ballroom, Sheraton on the Park, Sydney
Session Chair: Jos Sanchidrin, Universidad Politcnica De Madrid and President of FRAGBLAST International
Organising Committee
9.10 am - 9.15 am
FRAGBLAST11 Official Opening: Jos Sanchidrin, President of FRAGBLAST International Organising Committee
9.15 am - 9.45 am
Keynote Presentation I: New Horizons in Blasting Technology The Innovation Imperative Nick Bowen MAusIMM, Global
Head Mining Services, Orica
9.45 am - 10.15 am
Keynote Presentation II: Application of Engineering Discipline and a Full-process Optimisation Focus Productivity to
Profitability without Profuse Pruning Bill Adamson, Vice President Global Technical Service, Davey Bickford
10.15 am - 10.40 am
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Program
Day 2 Tuesday 25 August 2015
8.00 am - 5.00 pm
Registration Open
8.30 am - 8.35 am
8.35 am - 9.05 am
Keynote Presentation III: On the Influence of Fundamental Detonics on Blasting Practice Alan Minchinton, Manager Blast
Modelling, Projects and Technology, Orica
9.05 am - 9.35 am
Keynote Presentation IV: The Role of Stress Waves and Fracture Mechanics in Fragmentation Bill Fourney, Professor,
University of Maryland, USA
9.35 am - 9.40 am
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Physical and Technical Evaluation of Possibility Using Lowdensity Explosives in Smooth Blasting S A Gorinov and
I Y Maslov
1.20 pm - 1.40 pm
Detonation and Breakage Performance of a Hydrogen Peroxidebased Explosive Formulation I Onederra and M Araos
1.40 pm - 2.00 pm
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The Median versus the Mean Fragment Size and Other Issues
with the Kuz-Ram Model F Ouchterlony
3.30 pm - 3.50 pm
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Program
Preliminary Program
NOTE - This is a preliminary program only and subject to change
Registration Open
9.00 am - 9.05 am
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Keynote Presentation V: From Theory to Practice What Are the Hurdles and How Do We Overcome Them?
Andrew Scott FAusIMM(CP), Scott Mine Consulting Services Pty Ltd
9.35 am - 10.05 am
Keynote Presentation VI: Wall Control Blasting Dane Blair, Senior Principal Consultant, Blasting Geomechanics Pty Ltd
10.05 am - 10.30 am
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Establishing the Design Parameters of a Control Blast for Longterm Stability of the Hang Wall at Rampura Agucha Mine
P Rajmeny, R Shrimali, L Shekhawat and A Joshi
11.50 am - 12.10 pm
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The Effect of Delay Time on Fragmentation Distribution through Small- and Medium-scale Testing and Analysis P D Katsabanis
and O Omidi
4.20 pm - 4.40 pm
Effects of Specific Charge and Electronic Delay Detonators on Fragmentation in an Aggregate Quarry - Building Fragmentation
Model Design Curves F Ouchterlony, U Nyberg, M Olsson, K Widenberg and P Svedensten
4.40 pm - 4.50 pm
Symposium Close: Trevor Little MAusIMM and Alex Spathis MAusIMM, FRAGBLAST11 Co-chairs
4.50 pm - 5.50 pm