Research on the Wear Behavior of the Fixed Cone Liner of a Cone Crusher Based on the Discrete Element Method

[Image: see text] Taking reducing the wear of the fixed cone liner of a cone crusher as the starting point, the movement and geometry parameters of the cone crusher are studied using the discrete element method. To improve the service life and working efficiency of the whole cone crusher. The UG model and discrete element Yade model of the cone crusher are established, and the different shapes of the tin ore are represented using Yade’s preprocessor through eight different ways of particle combination and superposition. The static friction coefficient between the manganese ore and the cone crusher is studied and calibrated using the slope method. The relative error between the Yade and test results is 1.58%, and the calibration result is 0.44. The repose angle of the manganese ore is studied using the collapse method. The repose angle increases with the increase of the static friction coefficient and the dynamic friction coefficient, but the change trend is different. The effect of the dynamic friction coefficient on the repose angle is obviously greater than that of the static friction coefficient. The dynamic friction coefficient obtained by Yade is 0.042. Taking the swing distance, rotating speed, and bottom angle of the fixed cone as the orthogonal experimental factors of Yade, the regression equation of the fixed cone liner was obtained through the nonlinear processing of SPSS 25.0. According to Matlab R2017b, the influences of the swinging distance, rotating speed, and bottom angle of the fixed cone on the fixed cone liner are obtained. According to Yade’s research results, the order of the influence degree of liner wear is: the rotating speed of moving cone, the swinging distance of the fixed cone, and the base angle of fixed rotation. When the swinging distance of the fixed cone is 146 mm, the rotating speed of the moving cone is 198 rpm, the fixed rotation bottom angle is 28°, and the minimum value of the liner wear is 23 mm. Yade’s results are consistent with the change trend of the wear amount of the bushing obtained from the test. The research results show the correctness of using the Yade method to study the wear of the fixed cone liner of a cone crusher, which provides a theoretical basis for reducing the wear of the fixed cone liner of a cone crusher, and puts forward a new method to study the wear of relevant parts of a fixed cone crusher. At the same time, the research results are of great significance for achieving energy-saving in mining enterprises.