In its section on extending belt life in chapter four, Martin Engineering's Foundations™ draws the distinction between ...

For many years, belt cleaners were homemade affairs, often a slab of rubber, a leftover piece of used belting, or a...

Belting is designed with a minimum pulley size specified by the manufacturer. Bending a belt over a radius that is too...

In general, structures and machines tend to have their greatest weaknesses at seams or points of transition, where...

One of the most common forms of damage to conveyor belts is also one of the simplest. Impact damage stems from...

A 270-megawatt (362000-hp) power plant might burn approximately 82 tons per hour (90 st/h), 24 hours per day, seven...

Abrasion and tension are responsible for a large proportion of the damage done to conveyor belts, but other forms of...

In the United States for applications for everything except underground coal mines, as published in the Code of Federal...

A conveyor belt fire is a significant risk. The belting itself can burn; however, it is the length and movement of the...

Not every kind of damage conveyor belts suffer is always what it first appears.

Chapter four of Martin...