Abstract
Vehicles that collect and transport household waste are equipped with complex systems that perform the loading of the waste from the stationary collection containers, take over and pre-compact of material, compaction in the body of the structure and finally the landfill of the collected waste. Of all these operations, the compaction process is by far the most mechanically demanding. In this paper, the structural analysis of the compactor plate from a garbage truck is presented. In the first stage it was carried out parametric modelling of the assembly composed of compactor plate, counter pressure plate, the back of the garbage truck and to be compacted material. After assembly, the dynamic simulation of the compaction process in the garbage truck was performed, and the compaction mechanical stresses for the compactor plate were loaded in the Simulation module of the SolidWorks 2016 program. Here the finite element analysis was performed, resulting in the value and dispersion of the equivalent stresses (calculated by von Mises criterion), displacements and relative deformations of compactor plate from the analysed garbage truck.
Highlights
Manufacture of component parts for garbage trucks, and of other machines and equipments, assumes that their physical model to have followed, in the conception and design stage, several steps in which the design engineers have subjected it to modelling, simulation and analysis with specialized software operations, before being sent to execution
In the case of mechanical stresses, the most common method of analysis is finite element analysis. There are many such analyses in the literature, even in the case of municipal waste trucks, [1,2,3,4]. The purpose of this finite element 3D numerical simulation study was to simulate the behaviour of the compression plate structure of a garbage truck Valu€ Pak 1000 following the stresses that arise during the compaction process of household waste, considering that the plate is made of three different materials (Hardox 400, Hardox 450 and S355J2 steels)
It should be noted that three simulations were run, one for each of the three chosen steels (Hardox 400, Hardox 450 and S355J2)
Summary
Manufacture of component parts for garbage trucks, and of other machines and equipments, assumes that their physical model to have followed, in the conception and design stage, several steps in which the design engineers have subjected it to modelling, simulation and analysis with specialized software operations, before being sent to execution. In this way, many possible manufacturing errors, which may occur in these component parts, can be eliminated. In the case of mechanical stresses, the most common method of analysis is finite element analysis There are many such analyses in the literature, even in the case of municipal waste trucks, [1,2,3,4]. The purpose of this finite element 3D numerical simulation study was to simulate the behaviour of the compression plate structure of a garbage truck Valu€ Pak 1000 following the stresses that arise during the compaction process of household waste, considering that the plate is made of three different materials (Hardox 400, Hardox 450 and S355J2 steels).
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary 
Published Version (
Free)
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a call