Browsing by Subject "cutting process"

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Experimental investigation of dynamic impact of roadheader on floor
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2018) Cheluszka, Piotr; Sobota, Piotr; Głuszek, Grzegorz
This article presents the selected results of experimental examinations performed on the test stand in the Technological Hall of the Faculty of Mining and Geology at the Silesian University of Technology in which an R-130 roadheader (by Famur S.A.) is installed. During the examinations, the courses of dynamic load were determined in the points of the roadheader's boom support during its operation. In order to determine the impact of the cutting process on the strengths transferred onto the floor, the distribution of the static load of the roadheader's supports caused by its own weight with its changing center of gravity caused by the boom deflecting were determined. During the examinations, the size and nature of the dynamic impact of the roadheader on the floor in its support points while cutting the surface of the block made of equivalent materials (cement and sand masses) of various uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) was determined experimentally. The nature of the roadheader's chassis vibrations caused by cutting as well as the changeability of the location of its anchorage point with the movement of the cutting heads on the surface being mined result in high load fitfully in the roadheader's support points. The dynamic impact of the roadheader on the floor also has a strongly dynamic character.
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Significance of cutting process parameters as related to improving dynamic state of roadheader and minimizing power consumption
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2017) Cheluszka, Piotr; Dolipski, Marian; Sobota, Piotr
The process of mechanical excavation, especially that of hard rocks, is very dynamic. This results in heavy loads and vibrations in the cutting system of a roadheader, the drive units of the mechanism related to the excavation process, and the load-carrying structure of the roadheader. The ad verse dynamic state that stems from excessive dynamic loads or even overloading will cause a high failure rate in the roadheader and low efficiency of its operational process (high energy consumption, low productivity), thus leading to high costs of driving tunnels using the mining method involving roadheaders. This article presents selected results of extensive computer studies on the impact of cutting process conditions on the dynamic state of a boom-type roadheader equipped with transverse cutting heads and on the energy consumed during the excavation process. On one hand, cutting process conditions result from properties of an excavated rock material and, on the other hand, from process parameter values set up during the excavation of tunnels. Simulation studies conducted using experimentally verified mathematical models made it possible to identify relationhips that link dynamic loads of the body of a boom-type roadheader and energy needed for mining to the cutting process parameters of rocks with different compressive strengths. The regulation properties obtained in this way show the possibility of reducing dynamic loads of the roadheader through the proper control of cutting process parameters, including the angular speed of the cutting heads. By equipping the roadheader with a cutting head inverter drive system, it is possible to adjust the speed to the cutting process conditions by changing the supply voltage frequency of an asynchronous motor installed in the roadheader's cutting system.