- Success story
- Earth-moving equipment
Multi-body and structural analysis of a shovel assembly
Digging in mud, sand and rock loads a shovel very differently. We worked out the joint forces first, then checked the structure against them.
- Sector
- Earth-moving equipment
- Type of analysis
- Multibody and coupled ยท Structural analysis
- Delivered from
- Bengaluru and Pune, India
The challenge
The forces in a shovel assembly depend heavily on the soil it digs. The team needed the joint forces for different soil conditions and a structural check of the assembly under those real loads.
What we did
- Simulated the shovel assembly as a multi-body system for muddy, sandy and rocky soil.
- Took the joint forces from that simulation into a structural analysis.
- Ran modal analysis to find the mode shapes and vibration characteristics.
- Identified the bottlenecks and optimised the design.
The outcome
The shovel structure was assessed against loads that reflect real digging conditions, and the bottlenecks identified led to an optimised design.
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