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Aegis - Designer and Analyzer

The document discusses a software called Aegis which is used for underground drill and blast design. Aegis allows for rapid ring design and advanced analysis. It has features for designing drilling and charging patterns, importing survey data, generating reports, and advanced costing. The software also has a break model and can predict blast cavities from scan data to improve blast design.

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The Next Generation Underground Drill & Blast Solution

2019
Troy Williams, P.Eng.
iRing Inc.

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Introduction

• North Bay, Ontario, Canada 46.3091° N, 79.4608° W

• iRing Started in 2003


• Aegis Started in 2010
• 2015 - Manning Innovation Award (Canada)
Nominee
• 2014 - Northern Ontario Business Innovation
Award

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Introduction
• What is Aegis:
• Standalone
• Designer – Production
tools
• Analyzer – Advanced
analysis
• Uses real data
• Triangulations
• Drills
• Rock properties
• Explosive properties
• Rapid ring design
• Conservative 5x
increase in
productivity
• Users reporting 25x
increase in
productivity

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Designer – Drilling/Charging
• Pattern
Generation
• Automatic
• Design
stope in
seconds
• Rule Based

• Semi-
automatic
• Manual

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Designer – Drilling/Charging
• Pattern
Generation
• Semi-
automatic
• Manually
changing the
rings yet holes,
charges and
primers
updated
automatically

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Designer – Drilling/Charging

• Pattern
Generation
• Manual
• Change
hole
positions
• Charge
columns
• Primer
positions

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Designer – Slot/Raise

• Template based
system
• Reusable and easy to
share
• Slot/Raise 2D designer
• Editable
• Road Map:
• Explode Slot to
individual holes and
rings

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Designer - Export

• Hole/Rings – exported to IREDES format for consumption by IREDES compliant drill


rigs
• IREDES – International Rock Excavation Data Exchange Standard

• Aegis can export:


• Collars and toes
• Ring markers
• Laser line offsets
• Pivots
• .dm, .dxf, .csv, .str
• Ring outline

http://www.iredes.org/

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Designer – Surveyed Holes

• Import
• Manual
• Collar
• Toe
• Length
• Collar and toe
• File Based
• xml based
• IREDES report
from the drill
• Simple CSV

• Planned holes are


replaced with
surveyed
• Blasts can utilize
surveyed holes

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Designer - Reports

• Template based

• Modelled after
PowerPoint ™

• Drag and drop report


items

• Flexible views

• Flexible tables include


spreadsheet like formula
support

• Interoperation MS Office

• Symbol support

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Designer - Blast

• Charge based instead of


hole based
• Include rings/holes from
adjacent stopes
• Sequence
• Timing
• Manual/rule based

• Isosurface – represent
damage volume based on
radial break
• Dilution estimate
• Voxel approximation

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Designer – Plan View Timing

• Phase 1
• Set by Hole, Charge or Detonator Position
• Enter Times by:
• ms Delay
• Cap Number/Delay Number/Period
(Pyrotechnic Delay)
• Click hole in plan view or grid to select
• Paste from excel
• Available now

• Phase 2
• Add a ring view

• Phase 3
• Define inter-hole and inter-ring connections
• Timing can be calculated automatically

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Analyzer - Overview

• What is it
• Advanced isosurface
• Cavity prediction from CMS
(Cavity Survey/Scan)
• Break Model
• Advanced Costing

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Analyzer – Cavity Prediction from 3D Scan
• Blast cavity prediction from
CMS

• Utilize implicit blast


performance information
contained in the CMS

• Scalar Field – A function


that maps a single value to
every point in space.
Examples:
• pressure field
• Temperature field
• block model (grade)

• Current scalar field models:


• Kleine (3D powder factor)
• Holmberg-Persson (PPV)
• Liu-Katsabanis (Distance)

• Process
1. Generate Field
2. Create isosurface
3. Compare with CMS
4. Repeat process until best
match is found

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Analyzer – Break Module

• 2D Single Hole
• Confined Radial Break
• Free Face Reflection

• Dynamic Rock Properties


• P-wave Velocity
• S-wave Velocity
• Static Tensile Strength

• Explosive Properties
• Key - Detonation Velocity
• Density
• Ideal Velocity
• Ideal Diameter
• Critical Velocity
• Critical Diameter

• Estimate Optimal Burden and Spacing


• NOTE: Applicable to Surface Blasting

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Unified Break Model – Pattern Design
• Base Pattern
• Hole diameter 100 mm
• Spacing 2.3 m
• Burden 2.0 m

• Significant hanging wall


damage
• Poor fragmentation
• Dilution

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Results
• Planned tonnage:
15699 t
• Planned dilution:
17269 t (≈9%)
• Extracted tonnage:
15668 t
• Planned tonnage vs
Actual: ≈ 0.2%

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Results

Visualizations from Aegis Analyzer

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Break Model – Limited Data

• Mine – Northern Ontario – Optimize Pattern


• Very Limited Data
• No PPV (Attenuation Slope)
• No VOD
• What was known
• Pattern 5’ x 5’, 3 inch hole diameter
• Decoupled charges on hanging wall side
• Explosive - Dyno SL
• Rock
• Density, Structure, Young’s Modulus and Poisson’s ratio - Estimate
• Static Tensile and Compressive Strength - Estimate
• P-wave and S-wave - Estimate
• CMS data available

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Break Model – Limited Data

• Estimated Radial Break – 4.8 ft


• CMS did not break as far as predicted (~3
ft on average)
• What happened?

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Break – Limited Data

• Calibrate the Static Tensile Strength to


achieve radial break of ~3 ft

• NOTE: Hanging wall side used decoupled


charges (not currently model)

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Analyzer - Advanced Costing

• Cost Rules
• Products
• Activities

• Applied to Each Stope in Scenario


• Extensive Reports
• High Level Overview to Detailed Cost
Breakdown

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Analyzer - Advanced Costing

• Compare
• Explosives (using
break model)
• Explosives Tender
• Drills
• Similar Explosives

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Knowledge Base

• 1500+ pages of original content


• Original Instructive videos
• Original Explanatory videos
• Example Topics
• Shock Wave Travel in Rock/Ore: Dispersion and
Impedance Mismatch Contribute to Attenuation
Characteristics in a Rock Mass
• Wave Front Travel in Sandstone with a Layer of Coal
• P Wave Motion
• S Wave Motion
• Blast Design Considerations
• Condition of Drill Holes
• Blasting Dynamics
• Response of an Open Face to Shock Wave Impact
and Gas Expansion

• http://www.iring.ca/_Knowledgebase/#

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Road Map

• Plan View Timing – Automatic Rules – Inter-hole and Inter-ring timing


• Drifting/Tunneling/Lateral Development
• Incorporate with Break Module

• Fragmentation Prediction
• Break Module
• Full 3D
• Planned Holes
• Actual Holes

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Questions

Contact:
[E]: [email protected]
[W]: www.iring.ca

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