SITE TESTING & INVESTIGATION SHIPLOADER SPOUT FATIGUE FAILURE PROJECT The customer’s SL01 shiploader was taken out of service after severe cracking was discovered in the rotor section of the spout assembly. Verico’s mechanical team designed testing and monitoring equipment to help investigate and diagnose the source of the spout cracking. This included the application of instrumentation such as strain gauges, accelerometers and pressure transmitters. The data measured from the applied instrumentation was correlated with data from the site’s SCADA system, such as tonnes per hour on the belt, spout rotation angle and long-travel location. To allow the machine operational conditions to be better understood during the testing a night vision camera was fitted with imagery syn

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