Rock engineering design : properties and applications of sound level / Harsha Vardhan & Rajesh Kumar Bayar.

Contents

preface
The authors

1. About noise in general
1.1 Genesis of noise, its propagation, and unit
1.2 common terminology
1.3 impact of noise, etc

2. Application of noise monitoring for mining equipment's
2.1 sources of noise in heavy earth-moving machinery
2.2 Diesel engine noise-characteristics and control
2.3 noise control of mining equipment, etc

3. Rock mechanics: Application of sound Level
3.1 introduction
3.2 experimental work on rock properties, etc

4. Application of Acoustic emission and equivalent sound Levels in the Geotechnical fields
4.1 introduction
4.2 application of acoustic emission in geotechnical engineering
4.3 regression and ANN techniques in geotechnical fields, etc

5. Equipment for Drilling Measurement of sound and physico-mechanical properties of rocks
5.1 drilling machine
5.2 sound level measuring instrument
5.3 compression testing machine, etc

6. Measurement of Rock Properties and Sound Level
6.1 rock compression strength
6.2 Schmidt rebound number
6.3 dry density of rock, etc

7. Regression Modeling
7.1 introduction
7.2 multiple regression analysis and ANOVA technique
7.3 selection of rocks samples for Modeling, etc

8. Application of Artificial Neural Networks
8.1 introduction
8.2 multilayer perception
8.3 back-propagation (BP) algorithms, etc

9. Case Study- Sound Level versus Rock Properties
9.1 lithology of the mine/area
9.2 drilling machine and sound measuring instrument
9.3 sound measurement, etc

10. Summery and Suggestions for Further Work
10.1 summery
10.2 suggestions for further work

Index : p. 165-170