Simulation and Study of Random Loads on Continuous Miner Cutting Drum

Abstract

In order to study characteristics of loads on a cutting drum of a continuous miner, a mathematic model of random loads on the drum is set up in the paper by means of defining probability distributions of three-direction loads, loads and their variations on a cutting drum are given by building a computer simulation program when it cuts pure coal, rock and hard parcel. Results show that swing resistance is the greatest, forward resistance is the second, axial resistance is the least; a cutting resistance torque increases with the increase of broken media strength; loads cut stone layer are much larger than pure coal; range of load change and load fluctuations are big as cutting hard parcel, these conclusions are correspond with the actual situation.