Print Email Facebook Twitter Design aspects of pipe belt conveyors Title Design aspects of pipe belt conveyors Author Zamiralova, M. (TU Delft Transport Engineering and Logistics) Contributor Lodewijks, G. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2017-07-05 Abstract This dissertation investigates how to design a pipe belt conveyor system in a more effective way, considering two aspects: to ensure conveyor belt has sufficient bending stiffness to form an enclosed pipe shape without a contact loss with the idler rolls; and to reduce energy consumption of the system from the indentation rolling resistance. A conveyor belt bending stiffness is quantified from the toughability test. To detect an appearance of a contact loss with the idler rolls, contact forces are determined using three approaches: experimental testing; a newly introduced analytical approach, constructed based on the Displacement Method of Superposition with Maxwell-Mohr Integrals, and using FEM analysis. To determine the indentation rolling resistance, a 3D Maxwell model is used with multiple Maxwell parameters and Winkler foundation. Subject pipe belt conveyorbelt designbending stiffnesscontact forcesFEM analysesTroughability testcontact lossindentation rolling resistance To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:a989069c-54e4-4d80-a30a-a6fb9b333287 ISBN 978-94-6233-670-4 Embargo date 2018-07-05 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2017 M. Zamiralova Files PDF thesis_M._Zamiralova.pdf 17.85 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a989069c-54e4-4d80-a30a-a6fb9b333287/datastream/OBJ/view