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Successful Case: Failure analysis of a crusher shaft
Introduction Crushing is a set of operations carried out to fragment ore b locks of various sizes, which can be segmented into stages such as primary and secondary. The machines...
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Succesful Case: Train Bogie Instrumentation
Introduction With over 31,000 kilometers of network across the country, the railway mode connects major mining and steel centers as well as interconnects industrial and agricultural hubs to the main...
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Belt Conveyor Pulleys: What are they and its importance
Introduction Pulleys are rotary components, used in belt conveyors, which have the function of transmitting movement, diverting direction or even stretching the belt. This equipment consists of four main structural...
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Succesful Case: Structural and mechanical analysis of a bridge reclaimer
Introduction Structural analysis using the finite element method (FEM) is a resource widely used for structural integrity assessment of industrial assets. As an example, the analysis can be applied to...
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Structural safety: basic concepts and interpretation of results
What is structural safety? Structural safety is the condition in which a structure operates with expected performance. A more technical and precise definition is addressed by Leonhardt and Monning, who...
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Successful Case: Composition of a cooling bed
Introduction The discrete element method (DEM) is a tool used to simulate the behavior of bulk materials, regardless of shapes and sizes. It can be used in equipment such as...
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Successful case: Dynamic Analysis in ball mill
The last article published on KOT's Blog covered concepts such as: ODS, accelerometry, modal analysis and ressonance. Introduction The need for mills in various mining processes is evident to professionals in...
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What is ODS?
The last article published on KOT's Blog covered concepts such as: concrete, building pathologies, sclerometer, extensometry and carbonation. What is ODS (Operating deflection shade) and how can it be used...
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Concrete Tests – Part 2
The last article published on KOT's Blog covered concepts such as: concrete, building pathologies, ultrasonic, tomography and pacometry for concrete structures. This paper aims to discuss the following tests for...
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What is concrete and what are its tests? – Part 1
Concrete is the name given to the material resulting from the appropriate mixture, known as mix ratio, of cement, water, coarse aggregate (gravel) and fine aggregate (sand). The composition...
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Successful case: structural analysis of a mining stacker.
This article will present a successful case study performed by Kot concerning the structural analysis of a stacker. Before starting the case study, some basic auxiliary concepts are shown...
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Successful case: DEM analysis in a mobile sizing rig
Mobile Crushers The mobile sizing rig concept is not new to mining professionals. However, its use has only become more widespread in recent years, due to advances in related areas...
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2021 – Market Review
Introduction 2021 was marked by several obstacles and challenges that tested the management capacity of companies from all sectors. With the beginning of the vaccination against COVID-19, the expectation was...
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To be situated: understand FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction) analysis
Engineering is continuously evolving, improving the way analysis and calculations were once made during projects. Today, new applications, systems and computer models are used, ensuring greater efficiency in processes. Simulations...
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How computational techniques have changed the industry
As briefly discussed in the Successful Case: Railway Center Buffer Coupler Analysis article, Industry 4.0 has inherently brought several innovations to the industry in general and one of these...
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Computer Vision Applications: Understand
Computer vision is one of the most important areas of artificial intelligence in the tech business. As can be seen in this article, computer vision has transformed the way...
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Risk Assessments on Belt Conveyors
Risk assessments on belt conveyors are extremely important for reliable operation in general. According to international standards, which aim to establish the elements and procedures for risk management, risk can...
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Successful Case: railway passenger comfort evaluation.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: Railway vehicles are complex mechanical systems consisting of hundreds of moving components that interact with each other through frictional forces, suspension systems, and unstable...
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Successful case: CFD analysis on floating pipelines
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: In several scenarios in the industrial context, it is possible to observe interactions between a solid object and a flowing fluid.
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Successful Case: Railway Center Buffer Coupler Analysis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: Industry 4.0 continuously brings numerous innovations to the manufacturing context. These innovations include all engineering areas and have several ramifications of studies and application...
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Successful Case: Analysis of a railway bogie
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Today Brazil has more than 30 thousand kilometers of railways in its territory [1]. These railroads are responsible for the transportation of people and...
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Successful Case: Non-destructive testing, extensometry, structural and load increase analysis of an overhead crane.
Reading Time: 5 minutes Background: In the last text posted on KOT's Blog, it was evidenced by the work done to evaluate the viability of extending the runway of...
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Success Case: Structural analysis for the expansion of the overhead crane runway
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: Handling and transporting large loads is one of the critical issues in many areas of industry.
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The need for Project Quality Certification (PQC)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: For a long time now, the world has been presenting a large population growth. According to data from the United Nations, UN,...
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Successful case: Stability Monitoring System
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The revolution 4.0 present in industries has enabled the development of new techniques and technologies for several areas of engineering. One of...
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Successful Case: Stability Analysis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Background: Used in stockyards for ore stockpiling, better known as stockyard machines, are large and important assets for mining companies.
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Vibration analysis using image processing: benefits and possibilities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: Inspections to monitor machinery and structures in manufacturing units enable the promotion of their structural integrity through the identification of anomalies and...
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Successful Case: Conveyor Structural Evaluation – part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: To perform analyses of machine structures, buildings, and conveyors through Finite Element Method (FEM), it is necessary that the professional in charge evaluate the...
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Success Case: CFD analysis in movable hood
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: As computational power has advanced over the years, a new methodology for solving engineering problems has emerged. Better known as CFD,...
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The basic principles of the use of accelerometers
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction: The knowledge of the accelerations and vibrations acting on an asset is essential for planning of predictive, planned, preventive and, in extreme cases, corrective...
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Successful case: Railway Instrumentation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Kot executed an instrumentation project on a railway connecting two Brazilian states. In this article, you will learn more about how this successful case...
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Railway Measurement Systems
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: Instrumentation is used on railways in order to develop physical quantities monitoring (acceleration, velocity, temperature, etc) involved in this complex operation...
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Successful Case: Conveyor Structural Evaluation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Kot has carried out a structural evaluation study for a belt conveyor contained in a maritime terminal. In order to do so, a static...
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Structural vibration and dynamics analysis
Reading Time: 3 minutes Background: In general, mechanical vibrations can be defined as oscillatory movements of bodies around an equilibrium position [1]. These movements produce dynamic charges which can...
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Nonlinear analysis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: Broadly speaking, mathematical analysis can be solved linearly and nonlinearly. In order to understand the situations in which nonlinear analysis is used it is...
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Computer Vision: What is it?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The human vision is an important asset which allows the interpretation of several aspects in the world. These perceptions are numerous, for instance, observing...
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Success case: Structural Analysis of Modifications of Silos
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Often, within the industry, we are faced with unexpected phenomena during operations: clogging, failures, poor distribution of materials and loads, among others. In order...
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KOT BUILD UP
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Aiming to innovate and break with the traditional human resources professionals selection methods, KOT searched for alternatives which would indeed guarantee suitable new...
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Discrete Event Simulation
Reading Time: 5 minutes Background: Computer Aided Engineering, also known as CAE [1], can easily be defined by the usage of computers in order to improve or assist...
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Success Case: Auditing and Structural Analysis of a Slag Car
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The inspection and analysis are two very important tools when it comes to the promotion of the integrity of an asset. They can...
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Project Auditing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction: Within the engineering context, Project Auditing, also known as Design Review or Cross Check, consists on the verification of a wide spectrum of...
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The CARE Methodology
Reading Time: 5 minutes Background: Seeking to offer an Engineering solution aimed at promoting the care of its clients' assets, KOT Engenharia developed CARE, a term from Portuguese...
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Numerical Analysis
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction: In general, three methodologies stand out in the search for solutions to problems within the field of engineering, namely: analytical, experimental and numerical...
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A success story: CFD-DEM analysis in a Bulk Transfer System
Reading Time: 3 minutes Background: The Computer Fluid Dynamics analysis (CFD) is known for applying Finite Volumes Methods (FVM) to fluid flow problems, heat transference, amongst others, grounding...
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Basic Principles of Strain Gauges – Part 2
Reading Time: 6 minutes Introduction: The strain gauge test is an experimentation method which targets the measurement of deformations and, thus, analyzes the strain on components, structures and...
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Basic Principles of Strain Gauges – Part 1
Reading Time: 6 minutes Background: Whilst using assets during field practices we can find numerous situations, having knowledge on the tension and deformation applied onto a structure is...
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Successful implementation: Structural analysis of a reclaimer
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The structural analysis of material equipment handling using the Finite Elements Method (FEM) is an important tool in the promotion of an asset’s...
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Visual inspection of structural assets
Reading Time: 6 minutes Background: On an average industrial working day, the asset assessment is extremely important for the evaluation of the current state of the structure, focusing...
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Finite Elements Method, volume and discrete elements: which are the main differences?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Introduction: In order to assist the engineering problem-solving challenges, there are several numerical simulation methods, each of which containing particularities and specific applications. The...
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The main uses of CFD simulations
Reading Time: 4 minutes Background: Developed in the beginning of the decade of 1960, Computational Fluid Dynamics, also known as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), started being widely used...
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Oscillation analysis through images
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction: The analysis of mechanical oscillation is currently a well-developed technique, however, the conventional methods present limitations. Alongside the development of oscillations measured by...
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Computacional Fluid Dynamics: the required physics and maths behind CFD
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: Computational fluid dynamics, the most common academic term, is also known for its acronym CFD. It enables approaching issues through numeric simulations applied...
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Ubiquity of thermofluid-dynamic analyzes in industrial processes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Background: Often, in industrial operations, it is possible to observe situations in which heat and mass exchanges might occur between two or more phases....
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Digital Twin: how it can impact the industry and the preservation of its assets
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: For industry assets, future generations of equipment and structures will increasingly be designed and built with less weight weight, whilst enduring heavier loads...
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The influence of production’s controls in the lifespan of Stockyard Machines
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The stockyard machines are mobile equipment used for piling and/or reclaiming bulk material in stockyards, most often called bulk material handling machines. The...
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How does SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) work? engineering’s nervous system
Reading Time: 7 minutes Background: The SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) process, involves the implementation of tools and characterization strategies as well as damage detection in engineering structures and...
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SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) in the 4.0 Industry
Reading Time: 4 minutes Introduction: The SHM (Structural Health Monitoring) can be defined as a strategic implementation process based on the characterization and detection of damages to the...
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FEA versus FEM: Which term should you use?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Background: Controversial in nature, the differences between FEA and FEM relies on the source, author, and market authority; thus, there are several answers...
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Understanding the Finite Elements Method (FEM)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: The resolution of the non-compliant structures, as well as the development of safe and modern engineering projects, entail the union between technical knowledge...
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To be situated: understanding the Finite Element Method
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introduction: How to certify that the material used in the airplane wing was chosen with the essential properties for flight? How to guarantee...
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Discrete Element Method: What is it?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Background: In the last 40 years modern science showed a major advance in methodologies of computational analysis. This intense development of technologies,...
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