Abstract
Abstract In India agriculture is one of the most important sources of employment for the farmers and almost everything depends on agriculture. Root vegetables and crops are hard to remove from the soil and it takes much of the farmer’s time. Even after removing these crops manually farmers are not able to achieve 100% recovery of the crops. When these crops are taken out manually this process require many precautions from the farmer. Due to human error approximate 20-30% of root vegetables and crops are left out in the field. Rich farmers can afford the proper machinery to cultivate the root crops but poor farmers are not able to afford such types of machinery. Hence, the objective of the present study was to design and simulate low cost root crop harvesting machines for poorer farmers. The machine consists of a frame, chain drive, gears, shaft, seed drill ground wheel, plough and storage container. All the measurements, dimensions and material selections were taken as per ASTM-A36 and the design hand data book. The design of the Root Crop Harvester was done mathematically and finally validated using CAD software.
Highlights
Harvesting machines or equipments are based on mechanical systems
The stress analysis of Plough, Wheel Assembly Link and Plough Link are depicted in Figure 2, Figure 3 and Figure 4 respectively
The design, analysis and simulation of the Root Crop a) Plough Model Figure 2: FEM Analysis in the Plough b) FEM von-mises stress in Plough a) Wheel Assembly Link Model b) Displacement in the Wheel Assembly Link c) FEM von Mises stress in Wheel Assembly Link a) Plough Link Model b) Displacement in Plough Link c) FEM von Mises stress in Plough Link
Summary
Harvesting machines or equipments are based on mechanical systems These machines are classified on the basis of crops. There is a need to develop a low cost harvesting machine for poorer farmer. Machines should be operated by both skilled and non-skilled farmers. In this regards, Srivastava (2015) studied the problems faced by farmers in harvesting their crops. Srivastava (2015) studied the problems faced by farmers in harvesting their crops He undertook a full study of this field of agriculture and the problems associated with it. An Indian Government Analysis (Indian Government Analysis 2016) involved a survey done by the Indian Government during 2015-16 This survey was done to analyze the problems and gather the data of the Indian farmers. The high crop damage, frequent delay and breakdown were faced
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