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. |