Determination of Displacement Trajectories and Falling Time of Hingedly Fixed Working Units of Agricultural Machines

Abstract

The solutions of many problems of agricultural engineering are expressed through special functions. In particular, such problems include the problem of determining the displacement trajectories and the falling time of the hingedly working units of agricultural machines, when the suspension axis moves horizontally at a certain speed. Such working device include: a stacker valve, falling after release from the shock, a beam of transverse rakes, that falls after the release of the roll and others. The solution of such problems is to determine the motion time of a physical pendulum to a given angular position, which is expressed in terms of elliptic integrals. And although elliptic integrals are a well-studied class of functions, in many cases an approximate solution of similar problems in elementary functions is quite sufficient both from the point of view of practical application and convenience of use. In addition, this approach makes it possible to determine the approximate law of motion of a physical pendulum in an explicit form, which makes it easier to set and solve problems of optimizing the operating modes and parameters of the above-mentioned working units. By estimating the integral, such an approximate law of motion of a mathematical pendulum was obtained. Its accuracy is sufficient for engineering practice. The obtained formula for the oscillation period of a pendulum with a large amplitude makes it possible to determine the falling time of the hinged working units of agricultural machines with high accuracy.