Anwendung der Diskrete Elemente Methode zur Senkung der Beschädigungsrate von Maschinen für den Umschlag von Paketen im Pulk

Abstract

For the development of CEP shipment volumes of more than 4 billion shipments until 2021 are forecasted [1]. This is based on the increasing willingness to consume in the era of e-commerce and forces CEP services to realize the handling of large numbers of parcels in short time periods. Therefore, optimizing the unloading of swap bodies becomes an increasingly urgent task of the dock & yard management. To realize a gentle unloading process, a method for the validation of the Discrete Element Method (DEM) for the parcel unloading in bulk mode is presented. The goal of this research is the evaluation of unloading technologies – with respect to parcel stress limits – prior to the onsite operation.