Experimental acceleration Measurements and Finite Elements Modeling

Heavy crushing machines under their production shifts, creates various levels of vibration, noise and dynamic forces which can be transferred to other parts of the industrial unit. Such kind of factors applies continuous forces on machine parts which can cause gradual fatigue, creep and eventually failure of machine. In this thesis work we are studying Jaw crusher machine from Sandvik company, since the company has a high focus on safety and quality, this thesis is aiming to estimate the dynamic foundation loads that are transmitted to substructure of the jaw crusher. The thesis is based on estimating power spectral density transmissibility matrix-single value decomposition (PSDTM-SVD), between jaw crusher foot (CRF), side wall (SW) and substructure (SS) in x, y, z positions to identify model parameters including damped eigenfrequencies and mode shapes. This research has concluded that it is possible to estimate the transmitted load force by finding the relation between displacement transmissibility and force transmissibility by employing (PSDTM-SVD) method. In fact (PSDTM-SVD) is a sufficient method to estimate the damped eigenfrequencies and mode shapes during operation. Nevertheless, it is majorly important to have good coherence between measured data, in this case data that have been conducted in Y direction had a good coherence of 0.9