Summary: | Liquid carbon dioxide rock-breaking (L-CDRB) is a new physical blasting technology. To study the characteristics of its vibration velocity, rock-breaking field tests were conducted using a new type of liquid CO<sub>2</sub> fracturing tube. Comparisons were made between explosive blasting and L-CDRB in terms of the peak values, frequencies, and energy distributions of the generated vibration velocities. The results show that (1) for the same scaled charge, L-CDRB (vs. explosive blasting) produced a smaller peak, a lower dominant frequency, and simpler frequency components of vibration velocities than explosive blasting. (2) The dominant frequency and energy distribution were related to the total liquid CO<sub>2</sub> filling quantity. Higher total filling quantities resulted in higher dominant frequencies, and the energy distribution shifted from a low to a high-frequency band.
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