Efficient and Safe Transporting of Steel Sheets with Permanent Magnets

Abstract

In ports many steel product are handled. A method to improve the number of handled steel sheets per time unit and magnify the safety of the handling system a transporting device based on magnetic forces can be used. For this purpose permanent magnets are adequate, since their created field is static and so on the created forces are static. To cast off the sheets an additional field created by a common coil is used. Such a system is simulated and designed to carry three sheets of ST235 with a weight of 8,500 kg and a size of 4.40 × 12 × 0.02 m. To proof this kind of a concept a scaled down model is created and successfully tested.