Abstract: Earlier underground mining trucks weighed about 30-40 tons. As the time passed by weight of the underground mining trucks increased due to increase in operational capacity. Therefore the increased weight (50-60 tons) of today's underground mining trucks has introduced a tow bar failure problem encountered during field recovery operations. This problem is due to insufficient strength of the tow bar system currently used in the mining field. In this work design and analysis of a tow bar for recovering the disabled underground mining truck by a recovery vehicle from the mine field to the workshop or garage is carried out using commercially available software packages such as CATIA (V5R19), HYPERMESH (13), and NASTRAN (R9). The obtained software results are compared with the analytical results to validate the design. This newly designed tow bar system is capable of towing the new heavy underground mining trucks.
Keywords: Operational capacity, Tow Bar CATIA, HYPERMESH, NASTRAN.
Title: Design & Analysis of Rigid Tow Bar for Recovery of Damaged Underground Mining Truck
Author: Hemanth Kumar C, Sandeep. H. J, Shanmukha. M. Nadiger
International Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Technology
ISSN 2348-7593 (Online)
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