DYNAMIC-ENERGY ANALYSIS OF A ROTARY TILLER WITH A VERTICAL ROTATION AXIS.

The article considers the issue of dynamic and energy analysis of the rotary tiller with planetary transmission gear and vertical rotation axis designed for orchards and vineyards. In the result of investigations, analytical expressions have been derived, which enable to determine the resistance force factors of the cultivated medium affecting the rotary tiller and to set up their changing patterns during a single rotation of the rotor in conditions of forward movement of the aggregate/working unit. It has been confirmed that in case of binary symmetric blades located at 120 degree, the resistance forces transmitted from the tiller satellites to the rotor shaft mutually balance each other, as a result of which the traction resistance force of the unit receives the possible minimum value. As regard to the resistance moments transmitted from the tiller satellites to the rotor shaft and to their main moments, it should be noted that they change significantly during a single rotation of the rotor. Particularly, the extreme values of the main moment for each tiller satellite are obtained at the finite points of the rotor's diameter perpendicular to the forward movement of the tillage machine. Based on the driving and resistance force factors of the machine, as well as the differential equation of the motion, the term has been identified by means of the energy research of the rotary tiller, in case of which the angular acceleration of the rotor's shaft will be equal to zero and the machine will operate without oscillations and vibrations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]