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A Novel Intelligent ELM-BBO Technique for Predicting Distance of Mine Blasting-Induced Flyrock

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Blasting is an economical technique for rock breaking in hard rock excavation. One of its complex undesired environmental effects is flyrock, which may result in human injuries, fatalities and property damage. Because previously developed techniques for predicting flyrock are having less accuracy, this paper develops a new hybrid intelligent system of extreme learning machine (ELM) optimized by biogeography-based optimization (BBO) for prediction of flyrock distance resulting from blasting in a mine. In the BBO-ELM system, the role of BBO is to optimize the weights and biases of ELM. For comparison purposes, another hybrid model, i.e., particle swarm optimization (PSO)-ELM and a pre-developed ELM model were also applied and proposed. To do so, 262 datasets including burden to spacing ratio, hole diameter, powder factor, stemming, maximum charge per delay and hole depth as input variables and flyrock distance as system output were considered and used. Many models with different combinations of training and testing datasets have been constructed to identify the best predictive model in estimating flyrock. The results indicate capability of the newly developed BBO-ELM model for predicting flyrock distance. The coefficient of determination, coefficient of persistence and root mean square error values of (0.93, 0.93 and 21.51), (0.94, 0.95 and 18.84) and (0.79, 0.85 and 32.29) were obtained for testing datasets of PSO-ELM, BBO-ELM and ELM model, respectively, which reveal that the BBO-ELM is a powerful model for predicting flyrock induced by blasting. The developed BBO-ELM model can be introduced as a new, capable and applicable model for solving engineering problems.

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Authors acknowledge with thanks Prof. Dr. Edy Tonnizam Mohamad Director—Geotropik, Centre of Geoengineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, for provision of data of this study and encouragement given thorough out the paper.

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  1. Geotropik - Centre of Tropical Geoengineering, School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

    Bhatawdekar Ramesh Murlidhar & Edy Tonnizam Mohamad

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Ashok Raj Path, Patna, 800005, India

    Deepak Kumar

  3. Modeling Evolutionary Algorithms Simulation and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Danial Jahed Armaghani

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India

    Bishwajit Roy

  5. Institute of Research and Development, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, 550000, Vietnam

    Binh Thai Pham

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Murlidhar, B.R., Kumar, D., Jahed Armaghani, D. et al. A Novel Intelligent ELM-BBO Technique for Predicting Distance of Mine Blasting-Induced Flyrock. Nat Resour Res 29, 4103–4120 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11053-020-09676-6

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