Abstract
Leaf fragments and grain mixture produced by rice threshing with a combine harvester seriously affects the subsequent grain cleaning efficiency. In this paper, rice leaf breaking force was tested at different temperatures and moisture contents to analyze the influence of temperature on the tensile properties of rice leaves. The overlapping regions of rice leaf breaking force and grain separation force at different temperatures were obtained. Based on the rice leaf breaking force, the effect of the temperature change on rice leaf with different moisture content was analyzed. The results showed that tensile strength of rice leaf decreased first, then increased and finally decreased from rice sheath to the top. The tensile breaking force of the leaf sheath was about 75 N (N is Newton, 1 N = 1 kg·m/s²). The tensile fracture resistance of rice leaf was shown to weaken with the increase of temperature. The influence of the moisture content on the mechanical properties of rice leaf during the process of temperature change was small. At 30 to 35 °C, the blade was the strongest tensile fracture resistance, which was the lowest probability of fracture under the same stress condition. At this time, the rice grain separation force has the least coincidence with the rice leaf resistance to breakage. According to the breaking force of different blade layers, the number of blade layers has a significant linear relationship with its tensile limit. Therefore, the overall fracture resistance of the multilayer blade can be improved by controlling the temperature and moisture content.
Highlights
Rice is an important food crop in the world [1,2]
The existing rice threshing device can achieve high grain threshing rate and low loss rate, but there is a problem of high impurity content after threshing
It was indicated that the separation force range of freshly mature rice grains ranged from 1.48 N
Summary
Rice is an important food crop in the world [1,2]. Mechanized harvesting has become important in rice production, which has been an important guarantee for the world’s rice harvesting [3,4]. Based on the al., (2011) developed a grain detection model for high impurity content cleaning process by artificial deformation mechanics joint force model, plastic characteristics of straw node were obtained. Grain breakage rate and mechanical strength under different moisture contents were analyzed by the existing reference have insufficient research on the stress state of rice leaves, the many scholars [21,22], such as Zhao et al, (2019) and Tang et al, (2015). It was indicated that the separation force range of freshly mature rice grains ranged from 1.48 N The relationship between the changes of different temperature, moisture content, leaves layers were analyzed, which could provide theoretical reference and experimental basis for the design of the rice threshing device
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