Reply to the discussion on 'Prediction of ground vibrations resulting from the blasting operations in an open pit mine by adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system' by Yavuz Karsavran

摘要

The authors appreciate the discusser for his comments and great interest in our article [Iphar M, Yavuz M, Ak H (Environ Geol 56(1): 97-107, 2008)] which introduces the first application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) in the literature to the blasting operations in both mining and civil engineering for predicting the environmental effects in terms of peak particle velocity (PPV). However, the authors wish to reply to the questions pointed out by the discusser as follows:rn1. The paper has not focused on the proposal of any regression equation to be able to estimate the blast-induced peak particle velocity (PPV). To prevent misleading about the applied method, it should be clarified that the authors are not intended to establish a new regression equation, as the discusser supposes.