Test and Simulation Analysis of a Local Furrow Opener
This work is supported by the Bionic Engineering of Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of China (No. K201408).
This paper takes a local furrow opener as the research object. The working performance of this furrow opener has been studied by test and simulation using the discrete element method and EDEM software. On this basis, the effects of working speed and operating depth of furrow operating on tillage forces are studied by simulation analysis. Good agreement has been found between the numerical results and experimental data and the relative errors are within 10%~15%. The feasibility and effectiveness of analysing the furrow operating process using DEM are validated.