Dynamic Analysis on Tillage Equipment Used in Agriculture Using Ansys Software

Abstract

Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning. Primary tillage process tillage equipment loosens the soil and mixes in fertilizer and plant material, resulting in soil with a rough texture. Secondly, the tillage process, tillage equipment produces finer soil and in few cases shapes the rows, preparing and arranging the seed bed as per the requirement. It also provides weed control from beginning to the end the growing season during the total maturation of the farms, unless such weed control is instead achieved with low-till or no-till methods involving herbicides. In the process of cultivation tillage equipment under goes worst loading condition which reduces the life of the equipment. In this project, a detailed structural Analysis of the tillage equipment under the worst loading condition was carried out. During the part of a project, a dynamic analysis of tillage equipment was performed using finite element analysis package. The three dimensional model of the tillage equipment shall be designed using NX-CAD. Then the 3-D model shall be imported into ANSYS using the Para solid format. The analysis can be evaluated in a dynamic condition. From the analysis results, Mode shapes and frequencies are documented by using FEA software. Harmonic analysis is performed by providing the force i/p to determine amplitude v/s frequency, and the graphs are marked. Transient analysis is done by providing Impulse or Shock loads for determining Amplitude w.r.to Time and the graphs are plotted. In this project, we shall also find out the safety factor of tillage equipment. Finally, design optimization of the tillage equipment shall be done to increase the life of the tillage equipment component. NX-CAD software shall be used for 3D modeling of the tillage equipment and ANSYS software shall be used to do the structural analysis of the tillage equipment