That is a good suggestion. The Bureau of Mines has a lot of information as well. When you need more detailed study, there are some good computer programs that can be used. Some are proprietary and some are user hostile, but they can be mastered as evidenced by the accelerometers.
Regards, Harold Sprague
> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:33:01 -0500
> From: akester@cfl.rr.com
> To: seaint@seaint.org
> Subject: re: ground vibrations
>
> Harold et al,
> I recently had to do a lot of research on this very subject for some forensic work, may I recommend the book "Construction Vibrations" by Charles Dowding. It is very comprehensive and there are lots of case studies on blast vibrations.
>
> HTH,
> Andrew Kester, PE
> Florida
>
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