Structural analysis and fatigue prediction of harrow tines used in Canadian prairies.

ABSTRACT: The Canadian prairies are renowned for their substantial agricultural contributions to the global food market. Harrow tines are indispensable in farming equipment, especially for soil preparation and weed control before planting crops. During operation, these tines are exposed to repetitive cyclic loading, which eventually causes fatigue failure. Commercially available three different harrow tines named 0.562HT, 0.625HT, and 0.500HT undergo an experimental fatigue evaluation and are validated through Finite Element Analysis (FEA). Fatigue life estimation for different deflections under various real-field deflections was carried out where 0.562HT showed groundbreaking life compared with others. The study results showed that the fatigue life is highly dependent on geometry, number of coils,

SUBMITTER: Rahman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11564268 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature