Abstract
The necessity to reduce the cost of timber haulage by logging road transport to increase the efficiency of logging in the Russian Federation has been substantiated. The drawbacks of the timber road transport equipped with traditional suspension systems, which are manifested when they transport timber along low quality logging roads, have been revealed. A promising direction for improving the operational properties of timber road transport used for hauling timber is described. It consists in the development of effective design schemes for suspensions for timber road transport with optimal suspension parameters. The scientific works of foreign scientists in this direction has been considered. Taking into account the identified shortcomings, a promising scheme of modular hydropneumatic suspension for timber road transport has been developed, which makes it possible to recuperate the energy of the working fluid when moving on the roads of low quality, compensate for leaks of working fluid, and also control the ground clearance from the driver's cab remotely. Two-factor optimization has been carried out, which allows identifying favorable combinations of the two factors under study. The graphs of the influence of the pneumatic cylinder diameter heat transfer coefficient on the maximum vertical acceleration of the sprung mass, as well as on the maximum gas pressure in the pneumatic cylinder and the amplitude of the temperature change have been obtained. The cartograms of optimization of the design parameters for perspective hydropneumatic suspension have been presented.
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