The article presents the methods and results of modeling in agricultural biomechanics, which made it possible to substantiate models of cultivator working bodies adapted to the soil environment based on rotary discs with teeth. The biological prototype of this design is the burrowing limb of a rhinoceros beetle. It is proposed to solve the problems of improving the shape of rotary discs with teeth on the basis of the use of a mechanical-bionic approach, which allows to analytically describe the dependencies for determining the minimum number of steps of cutting notches between the teeth and the number of teeth on the disc, as well as the rational value of their length. The use of a new type of working bodies - a toothed flat disc, designed in a bionic manner, will increase the efficiency of weed control during inter-row tillage, and also reduce traction resistance.
The article presents the methods and results of the bionic approach in the system of agricultural mechanics, which made it possible to theoretically substantiate the main parameters of the model of the working organs of wavy discs using two bionic prototypes - the burrowing leg and radial ribs of the bivalve shell of the edible heart-shaped mollusk (Cerastoderma edule) and the burrowing leg of the dung beetle common (Geotrupes stercorarius). The model of the working bodies of undulating disks allows one to preserve the anti-erosion resistance of the soil in the upper cultivated layer in order to preserve its structure and stubble background during non-moldboard tillage in the soil-protective agriculture system for the technologies “Verti-till” and “Strip-till”. The results of theoretical studies on the substantiation of the design parameters of the working bodies of wavy discs for surface tillage are presented.
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