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Explosive compaction: densification of loose, saturated, cohensionless soils by blasting

Narin van Court, Wade A.; Mitchell, James Kenneth

UCB/GT-94-03, University of California, Berkeley, Geotechnical Engineering, 1994-05, PDF (7 MB)

This study describes the effects and advantages of explosive compaction as a technique to improve and densify loose, saturated, and cohesionless soils. In explosive compaction, the energy released by the contained explosive detonations rearranges soil particles into a denser, more stable configuration and expels water from pore spaces. Other names for this process include blast densification, deep blasting, or explosive densification. Hydroblasting is not covered in this report.

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