Geotechnical Aspects of Explosive Compaction

Table 1

Database records summary.

Site number	Project title/site title	Reference	Soil type	Fine content (%)	Depth of ground water level (m)	Thickness of target layer and interval depth (m)	Number of phases	Blast hole spaces (m) per each phase	Total weight of charge per hole per phases (Kg)	Type of charge	Total powder factor through all phases (gr/m^3)	Arrangement	Aim of improvement	Available results
														Settlement percentage of layer	CPT or SPT
1	Tokachi Port	[17]	Fine sand resulting from dredging of the sea floor	15	1	8 m (0–8 m)	1	6	7	TNT	24.3	S	L	6.2	N.A
2	Seymour Fall Dam	[8, 18]	Sand with coarse gravel and cobble stone	0	Ground level	10 (10–20)	3	6	49	Iremite TX	469	T	L	7	N.A
3	Test site in South Carolina	[19, 20]	Fine sand	4	1	5.5 (3–8.5)	4	10	19 avg.	Hydromite 860	138.2	S	L & I	9	A
4	Foundation of Tailing Dam in Ontario	[21]	Fine sand	5	3	20 (0–20)	2	7	32	Chubbs	65	S	I	10	A
5	Jebba dam (Zone I)	[22, 23]	Medium to coarse sand with gravel	0	2	15 (30–45)	3	5	1.7 avg.	Gelatin dynamite 80%	13.6	S	L	5.6	A
6	Jebba dam (Test)			0	2	15 (25–30)	3	5	21 avg.		168	S	L	1.8	A
7	Chicopee 1	[24]	Alluvial sand deposits	0 to 5	2.4	9.1 (6–15.2)	2	15.8	6.8	Gelatin dynamite 60%	6	S	L	1.4	A
8	Florida Job	[25]	Fine to medium uniform grain sized sand	0	0.9	8 (0–8)	1	4.9	2.38	Gelatin dynamite 60%	12.4	S	I	8	N.A
9	Franklin Fall Dam	[26]	Fine-to-medium sand	25 to 40	Ground level	6.1 (0–6.1)	4	6.1	2.43	Gelatin dynamite 60%	42.82	S	L & I	5	N.A
10	Road construction project in Sweden	[27, 28]	Silty sand with a little gravel and clay	25	0.5	2.5–5.5	1	4	2 avg.	N.A	31.25	T	I	3–10	N.A
11	Shanghai Harbor	[29]	Fine alluvial clean sand	0	0.7–0.9	10 (0–10)	2	5	16 avg.	N.A	128	S	Test	1	A
12	Quebec HQ SM-3 Dam	[30]	Clean alluvial fine-to-coarse sand	0	0	20 (0–20)	1	7.8	14.5 avg.	Hydrodynamite	11.9	S	L & I	6.2	A
13	Oakridge Landfill	[31]	Fine clean sand	5	1.5–2	4 (8–12)	4	12.2	15.5	Hydromite 880	104.1	S	L	11	A

S: square arrangement, T: triangular arrangement, I: bearing capacity increase and settlement control, L: control of liquefaction, N.A: not available, and A: available.