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April 18, 2024

Development of a test bench for characterizing the vibration emission values from jackleg drills

Abstract

Jackleg drills, very common in the mining industry, produce a level of vibration that can cause hand-arm vibration syndrome in their users. In a previous study, the researchers created a prototype of an antivibration handle for jackleg drills. This handle reduced hand-arm vibration exposure by approximately 50%. The handle prototype was refined and adapted to the mining environment for the purpose of marketing it. To support the development of the antivibration handle, a test bench for evaluating the vibration emissions of jackleg drills under controlled conditions was developed and validated. This test bench evaluates the efficiency of the antivibration handle in relation to its wear as well as follows this evolution.

Produced Under this Project

  • Mise au point d’un banc d’essai pour caractériser les valeurs d’émission vibratoire des foreuses à béquille

    Pierre Marcotte, Ouellette S., Boutin J., Boileau P.-É., Leblanc G., Oddo R.

    Source :

    in Actes du colloque - La recherche en SST: Anciens risques et enjeux actuels : Congrès de l'ACFAS (3e : 17-19 mai, 2006 : Montréal, Canada), Réseau de recherche en santé et en sécurité du travail du Québec / RRSSTQ, 2006, (http://www.rrsstq.qc.ca/stock/fra/fichier0161.pdf)

  • Design of a test bench to evaluate the vibration emission values of jackleg rock drills

    Pierre Marcotte, Ouellette S., Boutin J., Boileau P.-É., Leblanc G., Oddo R.

    Source :

    in Proceedings of the First American Conference on Human Vibration, (1st : June 5-7, 2006 : Morgantown, U.S.A.), 2006, p. 114-116, (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2006-140/pdfs/2006-140.pdf)

  • Development of an antivibratile handle for pneumatic jackleg rock drills

    Pierre Marcotte, Ouellette S., Leblanc G., Boileau P.-É., Boutin J., Quesnel B., Oddo R.

    Source :

    in Proceedings 11th International Conference on Hand-Arm Vibration (11th : June 3-7, 2007 : Bologne, Italy), Bovenzi, M.; Peretti, A.; Nataletti, P.: Moschioni, G. (eds), 2007, p. 555-559

  • Anti-vibration handle for pneumatic jackleg rock drills and vibration emission characterization

    Leblanc G., Ouellette S., Pierre Marcotte, Boutin J.

    Source :

    in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Narrow Vein & Reef Mining, (3rd : May 6-7, 2008 : Gauteng, South Africa), 2008

Additional Information

Type: Project
Number: 0099-3800
Status: Completed
Year of completion: 2007
Team:
  • Pierre Marcotte (IRSST)
  • Jérôme Boutin (IRSST)
  • Yvan Champoux (Université de Sherbrooke)
  • Rémy Oddo (Université de Sherbrooke)
  • Gilles Leblanc (Centre canadien de la technologie des minéraux et de l'énergie)
  • Paul-Émile Boileau (IRSST)