Zoran Petković

External Load Variability of Multibucket Machines for Mechanization

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.

Dynamic Responses of Mobile Elevating Work Platform and Mega Container Crane Structures

The modern design methods lead to the objectivisation of the process of thinking, which is important for the new system development. The aim of objectivisation and decomposition of the design is obvious: it should enable a new approach in the problem solving and thinking of the designer, enriches the large quantity of new information, facts and ideas, which are important for the system designing. The first part of this paper gives a brief presentation of mobile elevating work platform structure response to the wind excitation in possible resonant states. The second part is dedicated to the dynamic analysis of the mega container crane structure subjected to the moving load.

Redesign of the Bucket Wheel Excavators Substructures Based on the Comparative Stress – Strain Analysis

Failures caused by heavy duty conditions, as well as the changes of technological requirements, are basic reasons for the redesign of specific substructures of the bucket wheel excavators (BWE). The efficient redesign should be based on subtle external load identification and sufficient accuracy of stress – strain states determination. This paper gives solutions of reconstruction and comparative stress analyses for original and redesigned representative and vital BWE subsystems - slewing platform, undercarriage and two wheel bogie. The efficiency of these reconstructions is unquestionably confirmed by failureless service of mentioned subsystems.