THEORETICAL BASIS FOR CALCULATION OF PONTOONS USED IN OPEN PIT MINES
S. V. Cherdantsev
T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, ul. Vesennyaya 28, Kemerovo, 650000 Russia svch01@yandex.ru
Keywords: Pontoons, buoyancy, heeling moment, righting moment, stability
Pages: 61-69
Abstract
The author studies buoyancy of pontoons used in open pit coal mines based on the fundamental principles of the ship theory and finds safe height of pontoon upperworks. The derived formulas for metacentric heights are used in the analysis of pontoon stability.
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