Studies on Wear Characteristics of Commercially Available Sweeps of Tractor Drawn Cultivator
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2013
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MPUAT, Udaipur
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Wear of soil engaging components occurs because the materials used are normally softer than the natural abrasives in the soil. Most of sweeps of cultivator are manufactured locally which are hardly as per with the standards which affects operational life of tillage tool. So, there was a need to study wear characteristics of sweeps so, as to provide the suitable sweeps.
In first phase of study experiments were conducted in rotary soil bin in abrasive sand to study wear characteristics of three different commercially available sweeps commonly used in Udaipur region. The experiments were conducted for 100 h of operation at operating speed and depth of 1 m/s and 100 mm depth respectively. Gravimetric and dimensional wear were measured at every interval of 20 h. In second phase the sweep S3 which resulted in minimum wear was selected to study the effect of forward speed (0.7, 1 and 1.3 m/s) and depth of operation (80, 100, 120 mm) on wear characteristics in sandy loam soil.
A linear relationship was observed between operating time, speed and depth of operation and gravimetric and dimensional wear in abrasive sand and sandy loam soil respectively. However, depth of operation resulted in more wear as compared to speed of operation. Sweep S3 has higher wear resistance to wear both gravimetric and dimensional as compared to sweep S1 and S2 under test conditions
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Studies on Wear Characteristics of Commercially Available Sweeps of Tractor Drawn Cultivator
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Kakade and Sharma, 2013