A ball mill, a type of grinder, is a cylindrical device used in grinding (or mixing) materials like ores, chemicals, ceramic raw materials and paints. Ball mills rotate around a horizontal axis, partially filled with the material to be ground plus the grinding medium. Different materials are used as media, including ceramic balls, flint pebbles and stainless steel balls. An internal cascading effect reduces the material to a fine powder. During operation lots of failure are generated,so in my book I will suggest to prevent this failures by using the analysis. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Analysis of Ball Mill (Vipul K. Patel)