PARVESH ANTIL, SUNDEEP KUMAR ANTIL, ANIL KUMAR AND DHARMENDER JANGRA
Department of Basic Engineering, COAE&T, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India KVK, Sonipat-131001 (Haryana), CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, COAE&T,
CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004 (Haryana), India
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-Technical Campus, New Delhi
*(e-mail: sundeepkumar@hau.ac.in)
(Received: 2 November 2024; Accepted: 30 December 2024)
SUMMARY
The use of fibrous composites as storage box material in agricultural machinery reduces the machine’s weight and improves fuel efficiency. The composite’s better strength-to-weight ratio opens up broad prospects for increasing productivity and sustainable development of the agricultural sector. However, the abrasive environment in farming fields exposes these composites, causing their outer surface to diminish. The present paper deals with the parameters affecting the wear of these agricultural components using a pin-on-disk wear test setup. The experimentation was planned as per response surface methodology based Box-Behnken design, keeping load, surface, and time as process parameters and wear loss as response parameters. The results revealed that load had the greatest influence on the surface wear of the components followed by surface and time. The A Model F-value of 24.91 indicates that the model is statistically significant. Only a 0.02% probability exists for an F-value of this magnitude to arise by random variation. R-square value was found as 96.97 %, which indicates a good relationship between observed data and fitter values.
Key words: Fibrous composites, optimization, response surface methodology, wear, agricultural machinery