Research Article
Influence of Coal Cleats on Conical Pick Cutting Process Based on PFC
Table 6
Statistics of cutting force with different face cleat spacing.
| No. | The mean cutting force (kN) | The peak cutting force (kN) | The maximum fluctuation of cutting force (kN) |
| 1 | 0.450 | 1.812 | 0.898 | 2 | 0.466 | 1.632 | 0.938 | 3 | 0.503 | 1.944 | 1.041 | 4 | 0.442 | 1.803 | 0.867 | 5 | 0.473 | 1.754 | 0.963 |
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