Condition Assessment of Ship loader for Cerrejon Coal Mine Operations, Colombia

Condition Assessment of Ship loader for Cerrejon Coal Mine Operations, Colombia

Analysis/Design Team: Dr. Freddy Pina (PBRV), Dr. Carlos Ventura (VCSD) and CWA
Tools: Sap2000, Matlab, SeismoSignal, Batch tools

Share this Post


PBRV was hired by VCSD and CWA to  perform a series of structural analyses for the assessment of the condition of a major ship loader  structure located in Cerrejon, La Guajira, Colombia.  The steel structure consisted for several  structural sections and configuration and soil-moored-structure interaction.  The analyses also  consisted with the modeling of some components  to perform in the nonlinear range under dynamic loading.