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Experiment and Analysis of the Straight-Line Driving Stability of Track-Type Sugarcane Harvesters

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Sugarcane planting areas in China mainly lie on gentle slopes and hilly areas. For easy and smooth operation of track-type sugarcane harvesters in hilly areas, it would be significant to analyse the straight-line driving stability of harvesters in hilly areas. The static overturning angles of a two-track (machine A) and a four-track (machine B) sugarcane harvesters were used as the evaluation index to theoretically analyse the static driving stability of the two harvesters. The results showed that machine A was more stable than machine B when the elevator of machine A was rotated horizontally by + 0°. When machine A with a horizontal rotation angle of 0°–60°, the static driving stability became less stable. The dynamic overturning angle was used as the evaluation indexes to experimentally analyse the dynamic driving stability of the two machines. The results found that machine A was less stable than machine B. The larger the horizontal rotation angle of the elevator of machine A, the less stable in the dynamic driving. The structural stress value was used as the evaluation indexes to make a static analysis of the two machines elevator; the results demonstrated that the strength of the two elevators met all the safety requirements.

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This research work was supported by the Technical System Innovation Team for Sugarcane Sisal Industry of Guangdong Province, China (Grant No. 2022KJ104-11); the National Sugar Industry Technology System, China (Grant No. CARS-170402); and the National Key Research and Development project, China (Grant No. 2020YFD1000605).

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Li, J., Wu, T., Liu, Q. et al. Experiment and Analysis of the Straight-Line Driving Stability of Track-Type Sugarcane Harvesters. Sugar Tech 25, 1211–1220 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-023-01246-3

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