Impact of Vibration on Tillage Performance of Subsoilers Using the Discrete Element Method (Dem)

The sandy loam soil has complex movement characteristics during hole formation by hanging cup transplanters. In order to better investigate this point, the paper aims to investigate the disturbance pattern of transplanter vibration on sandy loam soil and the movement characteristics of soil particles by the discrete element method. The vibration characteristics of the transplanter operating on sandy loam soil were tested and analyzed, and the motion law of vibration parameters on sandy loam soil was investigated with the help of the discrete element method and soil bin test. The results showed that the vibration acceleration of the transplanter increased with the forward speed, the primary vibration frequency range was from 0 to 12 Hz, and the vibration amplitude increased linearly in the field of 1.21 to 9.19 mm. The Central Composite test resulted in the regression equations of vibration amplitude and vibration frequency on the average movement velocity of the particles. The response surface analysis showed that the effect of vibration amplitude on the average movement velocity of particles was greater than the effect of vibration frequency on the average movement velocity of particles. At the same time, the average movement velocity of the particles tends to increase significantly under the interaction of the two. This study provides data to support the design of planters for sandy loam soils, which is beneficial to promote seedling transplanting technology further.

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Effect of Transplanter Vibration on Particle Movement Velocity of Sandy Loam Soil by Using Dem

SU,

LI,

ZENG

et al. 2023

Design and Test Evaluation of the Subsoiler Equipped With Tillage Depth Monitoring and Control Subsoiling Assemblies

Lou

et al. 2021

Aiming at solving problems that the variation of tillage depth between rows and within rows caused by the surface undulation was great, the lateral stability of tillage depth obtained by the method of adjusting at the three-point suspension was poor, and lack of subsoilers with the function of accurate detection and adjustment of single row tillage depth, a method of independent control of single row tillage depth based on ultrasonic sensor detection and hydraulic adjustment was proposed. And the tillage depth monitoring and control subsoiling assembly and the subsoiler equipped with subsoiling assemblies were designed. The key structural parameters of the hydraulic cylinder and the model of the three-position four-way magnetic exchange valve were determined. The subsoiling quality and performance comparison tests were conducted, and the results showed that the mean value of the variable coefficient of soil hardness, looseness of soil and coefficient of soil disturbance were 52.23%, 32.55% and 62.15%, respectively, and the stability coefficient of tillage depth was 92.43%, which all met the subsoiling operation requirements. The standard deviation of tillage depth belonged to the method of independent adjustment of single row and unified adjustment of each row were 38.315mm and 51.521mm, respectively. The subsoiler equipped with tillage depth monitoring and control subsoiling assemblies designed in this paper was capable of significantly improving the stability of tillage depth between rows and within rows.

Design and Experiment on Seed-Guiding Tube of T-Groove Furrowing Device Based on Brachistochrone

Jin

Li-quan

et al. 2022

The disorder flow of seeds caused by the collision in the seed-guiding tube is one of the important reasons for the reduction of seeding uniformity. For this problem, a seed-guiding tube with brachistochrone considering the influence of friction was presented in this paper. By analyzing kinetics and rotating the equation coordinate system, brachistochrone under the condition of friction was obtained and applied to the design of the structural parameters of the grain conductor of T-groove furrowing device, and a discrete element model of the grain conductor and wheat was established, thus single-factor simulation analysis and quadratic regression orthogonal rotation combination simulation tests were conducted to explore the optimal combination of parameters. The test results showed that the seed-guiding tube had a brachistochrone radius of 14.708 mm, a linear length of 500 mm and a working speed of 4 km/h, and the seed spacing offset dispersion degree and the seed lateral offset dispersion degree were 12.26 and 8.53 respectively, which had a high seeding uniformity. The results of the bench validation test showed that the coefficients of variation of the two test evaluation indexes between the bench test results and the virtual simulation results were 10.20% and 8.62% respectively, therefore the simulation results could be used for the optimization of the seed guide tube.