OPTIMAL DESIGN OF THE SURFACE OF THE HIGH-SPEED REVERSIBLE PLOW

The farmland in Xinjiang of China is mainly sandy loam soil, on which the crops are subject to flat planting with mulched film. Before planting, the soil should go through deep ploughing in a short operation period, thus there is high demand on the high-speed plow and it is necessary to optimize the plow based on tillage resistivity to improve its working performance. In view of optimal design of the surface of high-speed reversible plow, simulation test was adopted to optimize the resistivity model, then finite element method was used to test the force condition of the plow. At last, the tillage resistivity of the plow after optimization was tested by soil bin test. Test results showed that, at tilling depth of 300 mm, tilling speed of 12 km/hm, and when the plow height was 250 mm with cutting angle of 37 degrees and dozer angle of 84 degrees, the plow achieved the optimal tillage resistivity and the optimal combination was 2.85 N/cm(2); at tilling depth of 300 mm, soil moisture content of 17%, and soil compactness of 220 N/cm(2), the maximum tensile stress on the surface of the plow was 115.61 MPa and total deformation was 2.869 mm; the maximum flexible strain of the plow was 9.38x10(-4). Soil bin test showed that, at tilling depth of 300 mm, dozer angle of 84 degrees, the optimized high-speed reversible plow reduced the tillage resistance by 17.9% compared with common high-speed reversible plow made in China, and can provide reference to the design of high-horsepower tractors.