Taguchi Approach on Stress-Displacement Analyses in the Mounted Type Chassis of Agricultural Sprayer Machine

Abstract

The optimum design for effective and economical use of agricultural sprayer machinery is becoming increasingly important. In order to reduce weight of agricultural sprayer machinery, safe designing has been continuously developed on chassis and sprayer boom by related engineers. In this study, the stress strain analyses of the developed mounted type chassis design for agricultural sprayer machine were carried out with finite elements analyses (FEA) after doing related literature survey. The Taguchi orthogonal array design (L16, 24) for eight FEA is done. After doing systematically static FEA according to Taguchi experimental design, von-Mises stress and shear stress together with displacements on mounted type chassis were obtained. As a result, the effect of the weights of pesticide tank and sprayer boom on stresses and displacement determined. Moreover, the theoretical information about mounting boom width and safety factor on the developed chassis predicted via FEA before manufacturing.

Keywords

• Agricultural sprayer machine
• Mounted type chassis
• Chassis constructions
• Stress and strain analizi
• Finite elements analysis
• Taguchi orthogonal array design.

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