Belt Conveyors for Bulk Materials Fifth Edition Chapter 6
"Belt Tension at Any Point, X, on Conveyor Length," page 117, and Problem 4 in Chapter 6. The decision to work forward from T t, or to work backward from T 1, depends upon the complexity of the path of the conveyor belt from these points to point c (c 1 for the first approximation). For the purposes of illustration, the following works ...