Tribologische Untersuchungen am Förderzahnriemen

Abstract

Because of their economical and technical advantages in transporting piece goods timing belt conveying systems are used in a wide field of application in diverse areas of the industry and are still gaining in importance. Currently the dimensioning of the systems restrains primarily at the cord resistance and the resistance of the base of the cleat of the timing belt. Quite vague statements about the extent of the coefficient of friction between the timing belt and its support rail are used as basic principle of the calculation. Mostly the increase of the contact temperature through the inserted friction will be totally disregarded. The practice very often bases on experience. Thereby the danger of over-sizing and under-sizing, as the case may be, might have considerable consequences at the lifetime, the wear behaviour and the operating reliability.