External Load Variability of Multibucket Machines for Mechanization

Abstract

This paper discusses the problems of identifying external loads of multibucket machines for mechanization. External loads are dominantly dynamic with distinguished stochasticity in certain cases. The paper presents the procedures for determining external loads caused by resistance-to-excavation (for bucket wheel excavators) or grabbing soil (for bridge-type coal stacker-reclaimers), as well as a short description of the model upon which is based and defined the response of the stacker-reclaimer to the external changeable load. It points to the significance of the problem of identifying the external load, as well as to the potentially very detrimental and dangerous consequences of eventual shortcomings during solving the mentioned problem.