Jose A. Sanchidrian Blanco, Ashok Kumar Singh

• Preface Organising Institution Committees Sponsors Technology developments A history of digital image analysis technique for blast fragmentation assessment and some Indian contributions A.K. Raina Automated rock fragmentation measurement with close range digital photogrammetry M.J. Noy Automated, on-line, calibration-free, particle size measurement using 3D profile data M.J. Thurley Surfometric imaging for dimensional analysis of individual aggregates and bulk samples G. Dislaire, P. Illing, C. Laurent, E. Pirard, P. Di Carlo & C. Moitroux Designing and optimising surface blasts using 3D images M. Potsch, A. Gaich & R.A. McClure Fragmentation testing Experimental blast fragmentation research in model-scale bench blasts P. Schimek, F. Ouchterlony & P. Moser Fragmentation under different confinement conditions and the burden behavior-small scale tests N. Petropoulos, D. Johansson & F. Ouchterlony Size distributions A three parameter rock fragmentation distribution A.T. Spathis On the performance of truncated distributions to describe rock fragmentation J.A. Sanchidrian, P. Segarra, L.M. Lopez, F. Ouchterlony & P. Moser Applications of fragmentation measurement Assessment of objective based blast performance: Ranking system V.R. Sastry & K.R. Chandar Return on experience from full-scale open pit blasting experiments F. Delille, D. Goetz & B. Tessier Fragmentation risk assessment in open-pit blasting using interaction matrix-vulnerability index method F. Faramarzi, H. Mansouri, M.A.E. Farsangi & M. Monjezi Optimisation of blast design for an iron ore mine and assessment of fragmentation through image processing H.S. Venkatesh, K. Vamshidhar, G. Gopinath, A.I. Theresraj & R. Balachander Research on prediction of average blasting fragmentation based on BP neural network G.Q. Zhang, T.J. Tao, X.G. Wang & C.P. Wu Assessing the effect of rock mass properties on rock fragmentation A.K. Sirveiya & N.R. Thote Author index