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2 Citations
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19 September 2025

In conveyor belt drive pulleys and intermediate belt drives, the power transferred from the drive system to the belt increases together with the increasing friction coefficient between the belt surface and the pulley surface, or between the surface o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,355 Views
17 Pages

28 September 2021

Results of tests into the energy-efficiency of belt conveyor transportation systems indicate that the energy consumption of their drive mechanisms can be limited by lowering the main resistances in the conveyor. The main component of these resistance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,050 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2024

Given the fact that belt drives are used to transmit power to a fairly large extent, it is natural to devote scientific attention to their transmission with an effort to contribute to the constant technical and technological progress in the field of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,858 Views
15 Pages

Research on Belt Deviation Fault Detection Technology of Belt Conveyors Based on Machine Vision

  • Xiangfan Wu,
  • Chusen Wang,
  • Zuzhi Tian,
  • Xiankang Huang and
  • Qian Wang

22 November 2023

Traditional belt deflection detection devices for underground belt conveyors in coal mines have problems, such as their single function, poor fault location and analysis accuracy, low automation level, and low reliability. In order to solve the defec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,550 Views
13 Pages

Hydraulic buffer systems play a significant role in energy absorption and improving belt arrest reliability in downward belt conveyors. In order give hydraulic buffer systems more preferable buffer properties, a parameters optimization method based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,485 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2021

The paper presents a methodology for determining the volume of a batch of conveyed material located before a transverse partition of a certain height and the distance over which the batch of material extends on the working surface of the conveyor bel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,121 Views
14 Pages

14 December 2023

Polyester is currently the main material used for the manufacture of safety belts used in car transport for the protection of passengers and the driver. The seat belt is the main passive safety element used in vehicle engineering. In this work, the b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,839 Views
13 Pages

18 September 2021

This paper studies outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) enterprises in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Using geographical information system (GIS) spatial analysis and SPSS correlation analysis methods, it analyzes the change in the spatial dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,891 Views
12 Pages

Aspects of Selecting Appropriate Conveyor Belt Strength

  • Dariusz Woźniak and
  • Monika Hardygóra

22 September 2021

Breaks in the so-called “continuous” (unspliced) belt sections, and not in the spliced areas, are infrequent but do happen in practice. This article presents some aspects, which may account for such breaks in conveyor belts. It indicates the so-calle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
560 Views
28 Pages

12 February 2026

Green innovation has been widely regarded as an important driver of sustainable development; however, its implications for biodiversity conservation remain insufficiently explored. Existing studies primarily focus on the roles of green innovation in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,451 Views
20 Pages

The Threshold Effect of FDI on CO2 Emission in Belt and Road Countries

  • Ying Nie,
  • Qingjie Liu,
  • Rong Liu,
  • Dexiao Ren,
  • Yao Zhong and
  • Feng Yu

Under the background of the global “carbon neutrality” goal, it is of great significance to study the environmental effect of FDI in rapid economic development. This paper proposes an original framework to determine the relative influence...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,272 Views
15 Pages

A Preliminary Studies of the Impact of a Conveyor Belt on the Noise Emission

  • Piotr Bortnowski,
  • Robert Król,
  • Anna Nowak-Szpak and
  • Maksymilian Ozdoba

27 February 2022

This article performs a comparative analysis of noise generated by conveyor belts with different design parameters. The study was conducted for belts with the same tensile strength, differing in the physical parameters of the cover rubber. Noise emis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
6,029 Views
21 Pages

9 March 2021

Belt conveyors are used for the transportation of bulk materials in a number of different branches of industry, especially in mining and power industries or in shipping ports. The main component of a belt conveyor is its belt, which serves both as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,497 Views
18 Pages

5 January 2021

In recent years, the “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) promoted by the Chinese government has attracted a significant amount of international trade and transnational investment and other businesses. Accordingly, country risk assessment sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,236 Views
20 Pages

Child Posture and Belt Fit in a Range of Booster Configurations

  • Monica L.H. Jones,
  • Sheila Ebert,
  • Miriam A. Manary,
  • Matthew P. Reed and
  • Kathleen D. Klinich

Belt positioning boosters reduce injury risk for child occupants compared with seat belts alone. While boosters shorten the effective seat length (and thus reduce slouching), “boosting” the child relative to the vehicle interior component...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,543 Views
21 Pages

Integrated Evaluations of Resource and Environment Carrying Capacity of the Huaihe River Ecological and Economic Belt in China

  • Wei-Ling Hsu,
  • Xijuan Shen,
  • Haiying Xu,
  • Chunmei Zhang,
  • Hsin-Lung Liu and
  • Yan-Chyuan Shiau

31 October 2021

The evaluations of resource and environment carrying capacity and territorial development suitability, also referred to as “double evaluations”, have been taken by China as an important direction in territorial space planning. Based on the evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,176 Views
15 Pages

6 July 2023

This article describes a method of obtaining data from the examination of an impact process by capturing it with a TroubleShooter TSHRMM high-speed camera and evaluating the results of a video analysis of the impact of the load on a conveyor belt usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,083 Views
17 Pages

13 July 2023

Land use change has serious impacts on the structure, function, and layout of the landscape pattern, which significantly affects ecosystem service values (ESVs). Based on land use data over a 10-year interval from 1980 to 2020, this study analyzed th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,973 Views
20 Pages

Application of the Methods of Monitoring and Detecting the Belt Mistracking in Laboratory Conditions

  • Przemysław Dąbek,
  • Adam Wróblewski,
  • Jacek Wodecki,
  • Piotr Bortnowski,
  • Maksymilian Ozdoba,
  • Robert Król and
  • Radosław Zimroz

6 February 2023

Belt mistracking is one of the most dangerous and costly failures of belt conveyors. This phenomenon can lead to complete damage to the conveyor belt, increased demand for electricity from the drive, accelerated wear of route elements, and poses a fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,560 Views
14 Pages

Monitoring of Rubber Belt Material Performance and Damage

  • Tomasz Ryba,
  • Damian Bzinkowski,
  • Zbigniew Siemiątkowski,
  • Miroslaw Rucki,
  • Sylwester Stawarz,
  • Jacek Caban and
  • Waldemar Samociuk

5 February 2024

Conveyors play a very important role in modern manufacturing processes, and one of the most popular types is the belt conveyor. The main elements of a conveyor include a conveyor belt, roller sets, a supporting frame and a drive and control system. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,877 Views
13 Pages

Design of a New Drip Irrigation Belt Recovery Machine with Anti Breakage Function

  • Junhui Ran,
  • Zhipeng Song,
  • Quan Zhang,
  • Wensong Guo and
  • Xufeng Wang

Drip irrigation technology is widely used in agricultural production in the Xinjiang region. However, there are still a series of problems in the mechanized recovery of field drip irrigation belts, such as easy breakage of drip irrigation belts, low...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,453 Views
17 Pages

Based on the panel data of the 11 provinces along the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 1997 to 2015, the super slack-based model (Super-SBM) model is adopted to calculate the provincial-level eco-efficiency of industrial energy. While bringing in tim...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,051 Views
16 Pages

6 June 2025

Belt conveyors are essential systems for the continuous transport of various materials across many industries, particularly in bulk material handling for mining. While they are often the most economical solution, they still consume a significant amou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,651 Views
18 Pages

Detecting a Sinistral Transpressional Deformation Belt in the Zagros

  • Mohammad Ali Ghanbarian,
  • Ali Yassaghi and
  • Reza Derakhshani

The oblique collision between the northeastern margin of the Arabian platform and the Iranian microcontinent has led to transpressional deformation in the Zagros orogenic belt in the central part of the Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt. Although previo...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,165 Views
13 Pages

Tests of Belt Linear Speed for Identification of Frictional Contact Phenomena

  • Piotr Bortnowski,
  • Lech Gladysiewicz,
  • Robert Krol and
  • Maksymilian Ozdoba

14 October 2020

In the locations where driving forces are transmitted, the changing tensile forces cause rapid elastic deformations of the belt. The deformation changes the belt speed. Measurement of the belt speed on the friction contact sections is essential to id...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,134 Views
15 Pages

A Diagnostics of Conveyor Belt Splices

  • Tomasz Kozłowski,
  • Jacek Wodecki,
  • Radosław Zimroz,
  • Ryszard Błażej and
  • Monika Hardygóra

9 September 2020

Damage detection in complex mechanical structures is important for cost-effective and safe operation. Conveyor belts with steel cords are used for bulk material transport in mining companies. Due to harsh environmental conditions, both covers and cor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,617 Views
21 Pages

Based on the panel data of 106 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt of China from 2007 to 2016, this paper explores the impact of city centrality on the green innovation efficiency and proves the mediation effect of migrants by using spatial eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,066 Views
15 Pages

The Influence of Fatigue Loading on the Durability of the Conveyor Belt

  • Nikola Ilanković,
  • Dragan Živanić and
  • Ninoslav Zuber

3 March 2023

The conveyor belt is by its structure a textile composite. As a load-supporting element of the conveyor, the belt withstands variable loads during its operations. In order to investigate the influence of the level and variability of loading on the li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,122 Views
14 Pages

Models of Transverse Vibration in Conveyor Belt—Investigation and Analysis

  • Piotr Bortnowski,
  • Lech Gładysiewicz,
  • Robert Król and
  • Maksymilian Ozdoba

9 July 2021

The transverse vibration frequency of conveyor belts is an important parameter describing the dynamic characteristics of a belt conveyor. This parameter is most often identified from theoretical relationships, which are derived on the basis of an ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,113 Views
27 Pages

31 July 2023

How to identify variables for carbon reductions was considered as one of the most important research topics in related academic fields. In this study, the characteristics of landuse carbon emissions of the economic belt on the northern slope of Tians...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,409 Views
15 Pages

Application of Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network for Damage Detection of Conveyor Belt

  • Mengchao Zhang,
  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Manshan Zhou,
  • Kai Jiang,
  • Hao Shi,
  • Yan Yu and
  • Nini Hao

8 August 2021

Aiming at the problem that mining conveyor belts are easily damaged under severe working conditions, the paper proposed a deep learning-based conveyor belt damage detection method. To further explore the possibility of the application of lightweight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
340 Views
14 Pages

Reliable Belt-Style Depositor Design in a Food Processing Plant

  • Tyler F. Baker,
  • Wolday Desta Abrha and
  • Erkan Kaplanoglu

12 February 2026

Considering consumer health, consistency in processes, and developing trust among the public, food manufacturing facilities are expected to adhere to strict regulatory policies. Along with these expectations, machinery capabilities, especially consid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Views
19 Pages

Research on Dynamic Characteristics of Long-Distance Belt Conveyors

  • Zhiwei Gao,
  • Xingyuan Song,
  • Zhongxu Tian,
  • Shouqi Cao,
  • Qi Jiang and
  • Kangzhen Ma

30 April 2026

Long-distance belt conveyors exhibit significant nonlinear dynamic characteristics due to factors such as the viscoelasticity of the conveyor belt, startup curves, and material loading, which lead to substantial variations in component loads and belt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,137 Views
15 Pages

Determining the Power Consumption of the Automatic Device for Belt Perforation Based on the Dynamic Model

  • Dominik Wojtkowiak,
  • Krzysztof Talaśka,
  • Dominik Wilczyński,
  • Jan Górecki and
  • Krzysztof Wałęsa

8 January 2021

The subject of the dynamic analysis presented in the article is the linear drive system with a timing belt utilized in the automatic device for polymer composite belt perforation. The analysis was carried out in two stages. In the first stage, the ti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,360 Views
19 Pages

28 August 2025

The establishment of a new green space system based on the green belt has become a new trend in the world. Shanghai’s Outer Ring Ecological Park Belt (formerly the Outer Green Belt) faces challenges of spatial imbalance in recreational service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,534 Views
15 Pages

Land Use Change and Its Impact on Ecological Risk in the Huaihe River Eco-Economic Belt

  • Huaijun Wang,
  • Ru Feng,
  • Xinchuan Li,
  • Yaxue Yang and
  • Yingping Pan

18 June 2023

Exploring the landscape ecological security pattern and its driving mechanisms in key economic zones is of great significance for preventing and resolving landscape ecological risks and promoting regional sustainable development. This study quantitat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,752 Views
18 Pages

Energy-Based Prognostics for Gradual Loss of Conveyor Belt Tension in Discrete Manufacturing Systems

  • Mahboob Elahi,
  • Samuel Olaiya Afolaranmi,
  • Wael M. Mohammed and
  • Jose Luis Martinez Lastra

27 June 2022

This paper presents a data-driven approach for the prognosis of the gradual behavioural deterioration of conveyor belts used for the transportation of pallets between processing workstations of discrete manufacturing systems. The approach relies on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,566 Views
12 Pages

Subsurface Insights of the Maricunga Gold Belt through Local Earthquake Tomography

  • Felipe Bugueño,
  • Daniela Calle-Gardella,
  • Diana Comte,
  • Valentina Reyes-Wagner,
  • Marcia Ojeda,
  • Andreas Rietbrock and
  • Steven Roecker

12 November 2022

With the advancement of the use of geophysical methods in mining exploration, the possibility of restudying known mineral deposits that could have greater potential than that previously estimated is opening up, as is the case in the Maricunga Belt (M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,903 Views
22 Pages

Impact of a Vibrotactile Belt on Emotionally Challenging Everyday Situations of the Blind

  • Charlotte Brandebusemeyer,
  • Anna Ricarda Luther,
  • Sabine U. König,
  • Peter König and
  • Silke M. Kärcher

6 November 2021

Spatial orientation and navigation depend primarily on vision. Blind people lack this critical source of information. To facilitate wayfinding and to increase the feeling of safety for these people, the “feelSpace belt” was developed. The belt signal...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,103 Views
10 Pages

25 February 2014

This paper reviews the effects of lubricant additives and base stock used in metal belt continuously variable transmissions (CVT) fluids on the CVT transmission torque capacity. Additive formulation composed of phosphorus anti-wear agent, calcium det...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,462 Views
28 Pages

3 July 2025

The Karamaili Granite Belt (KGB) in the southern margin of the Eastern Junggar is the most important tin metallogenic belt in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt. The plutons in the western part have a close genetic relationship with tin min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,154 Views
22 Pages

Green Belt Legislation Regulation: Comparative Legal Research

  • Natalia Lisina,
  • Aleksandra Ushakova and
  • Svetlana Ivanova

9 September 2024

Recently, legislative acts on the protection of the green belt have been increasingly adopted in various states. Using the legislation examples of the United Kingdom, the Canadian province of Ontario, and Russia, we have identified public relations t...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,830 Views
9 Pages

Innovative Conveyor Belt Monitoring via Current Signals

  • Len Gelman,
  • Abdulmumeen Onimisi Abdullahi,
  • Ali Moshrefzadeh,
  • Andrew Ball,
  • Gerard Conaghan and
  • Winston Kluis

This paper proposes, investigates, and validates, by comprehensive experiments, new online automatic diagnostic technology for belt conveyor systems based on motor current signature analysis (MCSA). Motor current signature analysis (MCSA) is a method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,393 Views
18 Pages

23 November 2018

The “Belt and Road (B&R) Initiative” is an innovative idea proposed by China aimed at promoting common prosperity in the world. Although it has gained more and more recognition and response, there is also some one-sided understanding...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,799 Views
5 Pages

The Effect of Measurement Trends in Belt Breathing Sensors

  • Erik Vanegas,
  • Raúl Igual and
  • Inmaculada Plaza

Sensors for respiratory monitoring can be classified into wearable and non-wearable systems. Wearable sensors can be worn in several positions, the chest being one of the most effective. In this paper, we have studied the performance of a new piezore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
754 Views
18 Pages

Determining the Maximum Linear Mass of a Suspended Conveyor Belt Using PySR Symbolic Regression

  • Sergey Alexandrovich Gordin,
  • Alexander Nikolaevich Ermakov,
  • Alexander Yuryevich Zakharov and
  • Jianfei Wang

10 December 2025

Suspended conveyor belts are widely used in mining, including in systems with non-contact support such as magnetically suspended conveyors, where the maximum admissible linear mass of the loaded belt determines the required supporting forces. This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,752 Views
25 Pages

8 November 2018

To enhance traffic efficiency, in this paper, a novel virtual belt algorithm is proposed for the management of an isolated autonomous intersection. The proposed virtual belt algorithm consists of an offline algorithm and an online algorithm. Using th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,899 Views
21 Pages

11 November 2021

In this paper, some tactics are considered in Xinjiang tourism industrial belt based on performance evaluation. First, we applied the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) to establish an evaluation system for Xinjiang tourism development in four dimensions: tour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,205 Views
17 Pages

28 May 2023

Together with the research and development of belt conveyors, diagnostic methods for their reliable operation have been developed. Our research is focused on the development of a diagnostic system and method of sensing the magnetic markers implemente...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,229 Views
18 Pages

Prediction of Abrasive Belt Wear Based on BP Neural Network

  • Yuanxun Cao,
  • Ji Zhao,
  • Xingtian Qu,
  • Xin Wang and
  • Bowen Liu

26 November 2021

Abrasive belt grinding is the key technology in high-end precision manufacturing field, but the working condition of abrasive particles on the surface of the belt will directly affect the quality and efficiency during processing. Aiming at the proble...

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