The use of a heating element to combat soil freezing to the working bodies of machines

Abstract

Abstract The development of wet cohesive soils at negative temperatures leads to soil freezing to the working bodies of earth-moving machines, which leads to a decrease in the useful volume of buckets and, consequently, to a decrease in the productivity of the machine. This article discusses the thermal effect on the simulator of the working body of an earth-moving machine. As a heat source, a tape heating element was used, namely, a carbon heating flexible tape. The technical characteristics of this heating tape and its technical device are presented. The results of experimental studies of the heating of the ladle simulator are presented and the temperature-time characteristics of the heating tape are constructed. The one-factor regression equations for the heating temperature of the bucket simulator at different ambient temperatures are presented. Research has been carried out on the effect of heating the bucket simulator by the heating tape belt on the soil shear force.