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Mining Equipment Reliability

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Part of the Springer Series in Reliability Engineering book series (RELIABILITY)

Abstract

As the complexity and cost of equipment used in mines are increasing rapidly, mining equipment reliability is becoming an important issue. This chapter presents various important aspects of mining equipment reliability including reasons for improving mining equipment reliability, open pit system reliability analysis, programmable electronic mining system failures, fault tree analysis of shovel machine, and dumper tyre reliability and factors affecting their reliability.

Keywords

Mining System Wire Rope Dump Truck Fault Tree Analysis Electromagnetic Test 
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