Deformações elásticas e áreas de contato de pneus agrícolas e florestais utilizando prensa hidráulica em superfície rígida

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Aleixo, Edward Victor [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Pneus - Desempenho; Máquinas agrícolas; Deformações (Mecanica); Equipamento agricola; Tires Performance
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/131945; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/20-10-2015/000853177.pdf

Agriculture and forestry tires influence significantly the machines efficiency, thus it is relevant to consider their structures, because there is a directly relation between tires, that are responsible for the support, propulsion and steering of machines, and soil. There are several tires characteristics that impact soil physics, like inflation pressure, contact area, and the height of tread claws. The present study had as objective to evaluate the contact area, vertical and horizontal displacement of two BPAF (low pressure and high fluctuation) tires, one forestry and other agricultural, of same dimensions (600/55-26.5), in rigid surface, by applying different inflation pressures regarding the manufacturer's technical manual, and submitting both tires to supported loads. The experiment was accomplished using a hydraulic press in NEMPA (Agroforestry Machine and Tire Testing Center) located at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (FCA/UNESP) in Botucatu-SP. The agricultural tire was submitted to the following pressure and loads treatments: 48,2 kPa and 25 kN, 193 kPa and 50 kN, 234,4 kPa, and 50 kN, 344,7 kPa and 50 kN. While the forestry tire was submitted to pressure and loads treatments as follow: 158,5 kPa and 35 kN, 241,3 kPa and 50 kN, 379,2 kPa, and 50 kN e 496,4 kPa and 50 kN. To get the contact area of each tire, they were pressed to a paper sheet that was fixed to a rigid surface. Then, a millimetric paper tape was placed. Pictures of each contact area were taken, and the areas were read with the software ImageJ. To obtain the values of horizontal and vertical offsets, two linear potentiometers sensors were used. It was observed that ...