Excavators can be classified into small, medium, and large depending on their size, which are used in various areas such as small-scale working in the city center, construction and civil engineering sites, mines and quarries. In addition, because of i...
Excavators can be classified into small, medium, and large depending on their size, which are used in various areas such as small-scale working in the city center, construction and civil engineering sites, mines and quarries. In addition, because of its high economic efficiency, the range of use is gradually expanding. As a result, excavators used at various work sites quantitatively evaluate the safety of excavators by exposure to complicated load conditions, and there is great difficulty in securing the reliability of the products.
Repeated work under harsh operating conditions will result in breakage of the equipment by reaching the limit earlier than the existing lifetime.
Boom, arm, and bucket are often made by welding several steel plates, so welding defects are often found.
The excavator can use various attachments. Also, Can be various work such as excavation work, loading work, crushing work, etc. By using several Attachment, it is impossible to consider all conditions. focusing on the most basic excavation work using bucket.
In this paper, Selected various excavation postures by setting the angle between each structure of the excavator working device as a variable. And structural analysis was performed using the commercial FEM program ANSYS Workbench 19.0 for the case where the load acts on the bucket tip and on the side of the bucket.
As a result of the structural analysis, the highest equivalent stress in the boom structure was found. Also, for all postures, applied the same load and finded the most vulnerable posture. In the most vulnerable posture, fatigue life of the most affected boom structure was evaluated when repeated load was applied from the tip of the bucket.
boom, arm, bucket, cylinders etc is excavator's main part of the equipment. This durability and reliability determine the overall quality. The direction of improvement was presented to the boom structure most affected by the load acting on the bucket tip indicated by the analysis result.