Operationally reliable dimensioning of major plants for the cement industry

摘要

This article describes a method that represents an extension of existing knowledge regarding the structural design of major process-technological plants, and that provides a link between design and industrial reality. This method permits a computational fatigue life assessment of components on the basis of typical stress measurements, enabling determination of the effect of the component loading on the intended service life. This information can be employed for checking that components are correctly dimensioned. A basis has thus been created for an iterative and continuous approach to the optimal dimensioning of components.