Any free apps for calculating Aggregates Volumes

[ben2363]

any one on here using a good app that lets you calculate aggregate volumes and other mining tasks??

 

[happydays]

Use the metric system. Dead easy.

 

[rcheing]

Use the metric system. Dead easy.

Can you please elaborate?

 

[Numone]

There is one app on iOS but there are many others on the internet, such as this.

 

[happydays]

Can you please elaborate?

Yeah, it's dead easy. Yesterday I had a guy laying a 9m x 4m x 100mm concrete slab. To order the concrete we calculated;

9 x 4 x 0.1 = 3.6 cubic metres of concrete. SImples. The metric system is a doddle.

A square of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm filled with water is 1 litre and weighs 1 kg. Makes calculations for anything so easy.

For calculating the weight of steel, for example, the relative density is 7.8 times that of water, so a litre of steel is 7.8kg. For your aggregates, just find out from Professor Google what your material's relative density is and insert that. So to find out your volume, calculate length by breadth by height (in metres) then multiply by relative density to find out the weight in Kg.

 

[ben2363]

aggregate stockpiles are not square if they flow out of a conveyor there more like a cylinder

 

[Richard R]

Yeah, it's dead easy. Yesterday I had a guy laying a 9m x 4m x 100mm concrete slab. To order the concrete we calculated;

9 x 4 x 0.1 = 3.6 cubic metres of concrete. SImples. The metric system is a doddle.

A square of 10cm x 10cm x 10cm filled with water is 1 litre and weighs 1 kg. Makes calculations for anything so easy.

For calculating the weight of steel, for example, the relative density is 7.8 times that of water, so a litre of steel is 7.8kg. For your aggregates, just find out from Professor Google what your material's relative density is and insert that. So to find out your volume, calculate length by breadth by height (in metres) then multiply by relative density to find out the weight in Kg.

Really doesn't apply to the OP's initial question! We all learned in grade school how to make measurements and calculate volumes, but calculating the volume of a pile of rocks is a bit more complicated. While you have to buy the Map Pilot app from Maps Made Easy, you can used it to plan and fly image collection missing that you can upload to MME to create an ortho map. Once you have the map, you can use their software to define areas and calculate volumes. High resolution (1-2 inches) maps of areas up to 25-30 acres can be processed for free. Larger areas can be processed using their pay as you go points.

 

[npalen]

Apps such as PIX4D can calculate stockpile volumes based on stitched uav photos.