Wear profile of a conveyor belt with DEM

José Figueroa

Hello dear community,

Could you suggest some ideas on how to create a wear profile of a conveyor belt as the image shown below?

The shaded area represent the frontal view depth wear of a belt.

I have also found the following info from Tom Donohue.

I would like to have a wear profile of my simulation. I really appreciate your references and help.

I also leave you an image of my simulation.

Best regards,

PrasadAvilala

Hi José,

The plot wear thickness can be calculated using EDEM using either Oka or Archard wear models only.

To obtain the wear depth you have to enable deformation which help to deform the geometry  based on amount of wear.

in the wear region use bins to export nodal position before and after wear and you get the thickness/depth of wear over the cross-section of the geometry

 

Hope this helps

 

 

Thanks,

Prasad A