Belt and Chute Software

BELTSTAT
A design tool and a computational aid to competent and experienced conveyor design engineers. Using good engineering judgment and conveyor design experience, users can quickly arrive at the following conveyor design results: belt width and speed; belt tension rating; counterweight tension; horsepower rating of drive motors; drive motor starting characteristics; idler specifications and spacing; pulley and shaft design; vertical curve radii and required special idler spacing; brake size (if required); flywheel requirements (if applicable). Code development was commercialized in 1968. For more information on BELTSTAT, click here.

ROCKY
A powerful, Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) program that quickly and accurately simulates particle behavior within a conveyor chute system. For more information on ROCKY, click here.

BELTFLEX
A program used to model the elasto-mechanical time transient behavior of a belt conveyor during starting and stopping. Its value is in predicting excessive transient forces in the conveyor system (e.g., shock waves analogous to hydraulic "water hammering"), which can: overload mechanical and structural components; cause material instability on inclines and declines; cause abnormal vertical curve behavior, such as lifting of the belt off the idler bed or festooning of the belt at regions remote to the control locations; cause unwanted take-up excitation or validate the take-up response capabilities to meet the design requirements; cause excessive belt sag resulting in spillage, mal-tracking and large take-up motion. It is used primarily as a final step in refining or validating the design of conveyors in which the effects of the chosen starting or stopping methods are not certain. BELTFLEX simulates the transient behavior of the conveyor as explicitly set forth by the conveyor designer, and will not make any design selection or decision. Code development was commercialized in 1980. For more information on BELTFLEX, click here.