The Statistical Characteristics Analysis of the Transport Conveyor Input Material Flow

This paper is devoted to the research of the statistical characteristics of a non-stationary material flow incoming the input of a transport conveyor. A technique for analysing the statistical characteristics of the input material flow was developed, which is based on the representation of the material flow as a superposition of the values of a deterministic and stochastic ergodic process. Dimensionless parameters are introduced that characterize the input material flow, which can be used to determine the similarity criteria for the transport conveyor input material flow. The method for calculating the statistical characteristics of a random input material flow is based on the implementation of a random process obtained as a result of experimental measurements of the input material flow. For the synthesis of the values of the deterministic and stochastic process, a quality criterion based on the theoretical correlation function was used. The calculation of statistical characteristics was carried out by the method of successive approximations.