Foundations for Industrial Crushing Mills is written as Design Aids specifically for practicing engineers. Drawing on the author's 50+ years of industry experience, the book emphasizes the physical understanding of dynamics as applied to mill foundations. It covers the fundamentals needed to understand and evaluate the dynamic response of these foundations.
The book lists the sequential steps required for designing foundations for Rod, Ball, and Sag Mills, focusing on achieving satisfactory performance for both the mill and its associated machinery. Beyond the core design philosophy, it addresses the modeling and analysis of Mill-Foundation system. This includes:
- Modeling the Mill and Foundation, and
- Various Analysis Techniques using Finite Element Methods (FEM) and other Structural Design Methods (SDM), complementing classical approaches.
1: Overview of Crushing Mills and their Foundations
2: Dynamics of Mill Foundations. Theory of Vibration with specific application to Design of Mill Foundations
3: Design parameters of Mill, Foundation & Geo-Technical parameters, required for design of mill foundation
4: Modelling & Analysis (includes FE Modelling) of Mill Foundation. All aspects of modelling & vibration analysis
5: Design methods: a step-by-step approach for conducting the design of a mill foundation covering 'Finite Element Method (FEM)' and 'Structural Design & Analysis Methods (SDM)' using commercially available packages.
6: Complete design of Foundation for Real-life Crushing Mill Supported over Soil
7: Complete design of Foundation for Real-life Crushing Mill on Piles
8: Construction aspects related to Mill Foundations.