Study of the influence of liner wear on the load behaviour of an industrial dry tumbling mill using the Discrete Element Method (DEM)

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 86, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 33-39

  Kalala, Johnny T ^a   Breetzke, Mark ^b   Moys, Michael H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b ESKOM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

DEM; Liner wear; Load behaviour

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MACHINE DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

ENERGY SPECTRA; LINER MODIFICATION; LOAD BEHAVIOR; POWER STATIONS;

GRINDING MILLS;

EID: 39749183393     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.minpro.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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