Simulation of a conveyor belt network at an underground coal mine

Mineral Resources Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 343-355

  Mcnearny, Richard L ^a   Nie, Zhenshan ^b,c  

^a MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Rushton International   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVEYOR BELT HAULAGE SYSTEMS; GPSS/H PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; UNDERGROUND COAL MINING;

BELT CONVEYORS; BINS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOADING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COAL MINES;

EID: 0034226039     PISSN: 09506098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-6098(00)00029-9     Document Type: Article

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