Swing Tower of Loader Backhoe Arm for Dynamics and Stress Analysis by Modeling and Simulation

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Abstract

As the construction work is increasing throughout the world at a rapid speed, the requirement of the automated equipment’s is also increasing at the same rate to assist this large amount of construction work. The earth-moving equipment’s falls in this category of the automated equipment’s and provides a great deal of saving of time in these works. The performance of these earth-moving equipment’s relies heavily on their sub-parts if one of them fails during the operation, then it will be drastic and may result in loss of life, money, and time. Thus, the manufacturers carry out variety of tests and analyses in house on these machines to insure their safe working of the machine and security of the others. The loader backhoe is one of the parts of the earth-moving equipment’s family. In the present work, the dynamic analysis is carried out on the swing tower which is one of the parts of the loader backhoe machine. For simulating the dynamic response of the swing tower during loading and unloading of the backhoe assembly due to its working, a finite element analysis tool, ADAMS 10.0, is used. After carrying out the dynamic analysis of the swing tower, the stress analysis of the complete backhoe arm is also performed using finite element analysis tool, ANSYS 10.0, to predict the performance of the swing tower mechanism and backhoe assembly more accurately at the design stage itself.

Keywords

Loader backhoe arm Swing tower Backhoe assembly Earth-moving equipment Stress analysis Finite element analysis tool Dynamic analysis 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.University of Petroleum and Energy StudiesDehradunIndia

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