Theoretical study of unloading the body of vehicles equipped with elastic partitions

Abstract

For transporting potatoes, it is proposed to equip the vehicle with elastic partitions. Elastic partitions are formed by tubes of elastic material and can rotate around the axis of the transverse partition. A model has been developed that allows one to take into account a large number of parameters of root crops, a vehicle body, elastic partitions, parameters of the unloading process, and also calculate the main indicators of the efficiency of unloading root crops. As a result of optimization, it has been found that the optimal length of the elastic tube is 1.58 m (when the height of the vehicle body is 1.60 m), the optimal coefficient of bending stiffness of the tube is 0.9 kN/m2. At the same time, the unloading time will be less than 11.5 s and the share of damaged root crops will be less than 4.0%.