Quality Assessment of the Rubber-Textile Conveyor Belts at the Dynamic Impact Loading.

Material transport by belt conveyors is an important element not only at mining and processing of mineral raw materials, but it is also irretrievable at waste processing, in machinery industry, metallurgical industry, construction, agriculture, etc. The conveyor belt is an important part of belt conveyors. In practice, the conveyor belt is subject to the influence of much mechanical stress, which lowers its quality and operational life. This influence invokes the process of the wearing and deterioration of the conveyor belt. Because the damage of the conveyor belt has farreaching consequences for its user, the issue of monitoring of the quality of conveyor belts, or the assessment of their damage is very topical. The article presents partial results of the experimental research at the Logistics Institute of the Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology at the Technical University in Kosice. The main goal of the research is to determine the influence of selected parameters (storage of conveyor belts, drop height of the material, type of transported material) on the quality and damage of the rubber-textile conveyor belt. A model was created by means of logistic regression for the assessment and analysis of the experimental tests and severity of the damage of conveyor belts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]