Jakob Müller
PhD Student
Chair of Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics — Montanuniversität Leoben
Dr.mont. Dipl.-Ing. Michael Prenner
Senior Research Associate
PhD Student
Chair of Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics — Montanuniversität Leoben
Dr.mont. Dipl.-Ing. Michael Prenner
Senior Research Associate
Toward Force-Referenced Strain Monitoring of Conveyor Belts During Operation
Hoisting and Conveying Equipment and TechnologiesBelt conveyors are important continuous transport systems in mining and bulk-material handling, where reliable operation is required for high system availability. In addition to global operating quantities such as drive power, belt speed, or take-up force, local changes in belt loading and contact conditions are relevant for condition monitoring. Faults or abnormal operating states, such as blocked idlers or belt misalignment, may occur only at specific positions along the conveyor route and are therefore difficult to detect by stationary or component-specific monitoring alone [1–3]. An instrumented belt section offers a complementary measurement perspective, because it repeatedly passes over the installed idlers, pulleys, and transition regions. Previous work by Egger et al. [4] showed that strain gauges can be applied to conveyor belts for strain measurement.
