Measurement and simulation of impact wear damage to industrial conveyor belts

Abstract Increasing the reliability of commercial conveyor belt systems results in an improvement of the service life and the economics of the belts as well as other technological components. The operational service life of a conveyor belt depends on several factors, such as the type of transported material, operating conditions, conveyor belt quality, and belt material properties. Important factors also include the methods used for conveyor belt storage. Long-term storage, which is not compliant with the applicable standards, contributes to the shortening of a belt’s service life. The main objective of this article is to identify the effects of selected factors (i.e. storage, drop height, type of transported material) on the wear of rubber-textile conveyor belts. These experiments involved testing unused conveyor belts in two different phases of their life cycle: (1) a conveyor belt stored for 24 months, and (2) an unstored conveyor belt, put into service right from the factory, i.e. in the beginning of its life cycle. In total, 42 test samples were used. An analysis of the relative risk, and the use of decision trees, established the relationship between the selected variables.

[1]  M. Hardygóra,et al.  Assessment methods of conveyor belts impact resistance to the dynamic action of a concentrated load , 2014 .

[2]  Changyun Miao,et al.  On-line conveyor belts inspection based on machine vision , 2014 .

[3]  M. Fiset,et al.  Laboratory simulation of the wear process of belt conveyor rollers , 1993 .

[4]  Teodor Tóth,et al.  Failure analysis of belt conveyor damage caused by the falling material. Part I: Experimental measurements and regression models , 2014 .

[5]  Ľubomír Ambriško,et al.  Belt Damage Aspect to Impact Loading , 2014 .

[6]  M. Bednarik,et al.  Wear of Heavy Industry Tires , 2013 .

[7]  Predrag Jovančić,et al.  Pouzdanost gumenih traka trakastog transportera kao dijela sustava za otkopavanje jalovine − studija slučaja: površinski kop Tamnava istočno polje , 2014 .

[8]  Gabriel Fedorko,et al.  Failure analysis of textile rubber conveyor belt damaged by dynamic wear , 2013 .

[9]  Kun Hu,et al.  Research on the Idler Spacing of Belt Conveyor , 2011 .

[10]  Krzysztof Kolowrocki,et al.  Failure dependency analysis of series system with example of conveyor belt , 2014, The 10th International Conference on Digital Technologies 2014.

[11]  Qing-rui Meng,et al.  Dynamic characteristics of conveyor belts , 2008 .

[12]  M. Lindroos,et al.  Ballistic and numerical simulation of impacting goods on conveyor belt rubber , 2015 .

[13]  Radoslaw Zimroz,et al.  Novel Approaches for Processing of Multi-Channels NDT Signals for Damage Detection in Conveyor Belts with Steel Cords , 2013 .

[14]  Lihua Zhao,et al.  Typical Failure Analysis and Processing of Belt Conveyor , 2011 .

[15]  Pavel Peterka,et al.  Possibilities of failure analysis for steel cord conveyor belts using knowledge obtained from non-destructive testing of steel ropes , 2016 .

[16]  Ming-jian Yuan,et al.  Simulation and Comparison of Equipment Maintenance Strategies—A Blast Furnace Belt Conveyor Example , 2014 .

[17]  G. Lodewijks,et al.  A Novel Embedded Conductive Detection System for Intelligent Conveyor Belt Monitoring , 2006, 2006 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics.

[18]  Daniela Marasová,et al.  Using logistic regression in tracing the significance of rubber–textile conveyor belt damage , 2014 .

[19]  E. Badisch,et al.  Abrasive wear mechanisms and their relation to rock properties , 2013 .

[20]  Mohammad Ataei,et al.  Fault tree analysis of failure cause of crushing plant and mixing bed hall at Khoy cement factory in Iran☆ , 2014, Case studies in engineering failure analysis.

[21]  Heng Yang,et al.  A reliability analysis method of cloud theory – Monte Carlo based on performance degradation data , 2015 .

[22]  M. Stanek,et al.  Influence of Mechanical Properties on Wear of Heavily Stressed Rubber Parts , 2009 .