Shovel-Truck Systems

Jacek Czaplicki received his Master of Science in Mine Mechanization from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. He also obtained a Doctorate degree in Technical Sciences and his Doctor in Science degree in Mining and Geological Engineering with a specialization in Mine Machinery at the same University. He worked for three years at the Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin, Nigeria on a UNESCO project. A few years later he was appointed to Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd and worked as a lecturer at the School of Mines at the University of Zambia as part of a World Bank project.He has published more than a hundred and twenty papers. His specialization comprises mine transport, reliability and computation of mine machinery and their systems and reliability of hoist head ropes. He is an internationally recognized specialist in mine mechanization.

• Introduction; Queuing Systems Applied; Purpose, Method Applied and Field of Consideration; Reliability and Exploitation Process; Probabilistic Properties of the Exploitation Process of Components of Machinery System; Modelling and Analysis of the Exploitation Process of a Shovel-Truck System; Verification of Selection of Structural Parameters of the System; Spare Loaders; Systems with Priority and the Ideal Dispatcher; Hauling Distance and System Characteristics.

Beyond doubt this is an important and meritorious book: Developing and applying new or improving old approaches different from those currently in use in order to better understand, analyze, assess and finally optimize technical systems is of utmost importance for the further development of science and technology, and hence the industry; and this is exactly what Czaplicki aims at.Professor F.L. Wilke, Technical University Berlin, Germany