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Justification of vibrating hopper hole parameters during fine grained bulk material unloading

Purpose. The leakage process of the fine grained bulk material (BM) from the unloading hopper is considered. As known the BM behaviour during the unloading process is directly related to the material stress state (active or passive) inside the hopper, which depends on  the  physical and mechanical bulk material  properties, as well as hopper geometric parameters.