Design and Strength Analysis of a Guttering Plough with Two Adjusting Stages

Abstract

A guttering plough with two adjusting stages was designed in this paper, which can adjust its configure and position in two stages. With these two adjusting movements, the ploughshare of this guttering plough can be put in soil at a deep position, to dig out a deeper channel than normal ones. The boundary conditions including loading and constraint were obtained, when it work normally. Combined with it, and the transformed configure and position in two stages, and the structure and loading characteristics of the guttering plough, a mechanical model was established with finite element analysis method. Then its analysis and solution were carried out by using ANSYS software. Under normal working condition, the stress and strain distributions of each part of this guttering plough were obtained. The calculation results showed that the structure of this guttering plough can meet the requirement of strength, but the positions of the joints were slightly poor, so it should be properly enlarged. Finite element software can be used to analyze the spatial static of this guttering plough, which can be certified as a feasible method for the design and improvement of the plow frame structure.