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Over the years a lot of work has done and is still continuing with great effort to save weightand cost of applications. The current trend is to provide weight/cost effective products which meet thestringent requirements. The belt conveyor is an endless belt moving over two end pulleys at fixedpositions and used for transporting material horizontally or at an incline up or down. Allow quick andefficient transportation for a wide variety of materials. Diverter car belt conveyors are used to transferconcrete horizontally and limited distance vertically. They are particularly useful in areas such as damslabs where it is difficulty to put concrete at mid side of the river at specific point, bridge, tunnelswhere space is limited and where it is difficulty to put concrete at specific point, Bridge gradermaking. A 25 meter cantilever belt conveyor is used in the diverter car belt conveyor system.Thesupporting the belt conveyor system is called belt conveyor supporting structure. Structure thatsupports and maintains the alignments of the idlers and pulleys and support the driving machinery.Goal of the project is to study existing conveyor system and optimize dead weight, structures optimizeto minimize the overall weight of assembly and material saving can withstand such loads. The designof supporting structure can be make safe. With the help of SOLIDWORK for modeling and ANSYS14.5 for analysis we analyzed the whole system.

Dixit M.Patel, Mr. H. J. Patel, Dr. H. N. Shah, “Optimization of Diverter car belt conveyor supporting structure to Reduce dead weight”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 1, Issue 5, pp. 261-269, May 2014.