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Effect of Horizontal Load on the Performance of Track Roller

수평방향 하중이 트랙롤러의 특성에 미치는 영향

  • Received : 2016.03.01
  • Accepted : 2016.06.21
  • Published : 2016.08.01

Abstract

Track rollers are the key parts that support the weight applied to the caterpillar track of construction machinery. The operating conditions of construction machinery are harsh; hence, the track rollers exposed to these conditions can experience failures such as oil leakage and breakdown of the machine, because of impacts during driving. The failure of track-rollers has a major effect on the operation of the construction machinery. Therefore, each manufacturer tries to evaluate the performance of their products by conducting a self-test. However, only the vertical loads applied to the track rollers are considered in most of the self-tests. This method has the problem of ignoring the horizontal loads that are applied to the track rollers while rotary driving, and hence it does not create the practical operating condition of the construction machinery. In this study, we have determined the experimental conditions that effectively consider the magnitudes of the vertical and horizontal loads. The results of simulations and experiments conducted to assess the influence of horizontal loads on the failure of track rollers are presented in this paper.

트랙롤러는 건설기계의 무한궤도 메카니즘에 장착되어 차량에 가해지는 하중을 지지하는 역할을 하는 핵심부품이다. 건설기계의 작업환경은 매우 가혹하며, 이러한 환경에 노출된 트랙롤러는 반복되는 주행충격으로 누유 및 파손 등의 고장을 발생하게 된다. 트랙롤러의 고장이 발생하면 건설기계 차량의 주행에 큰 영향을 미치게 되므로, 트랙롤러 생산업체에서는 자체시험을 수행하여 제품의 성능을 확인하고 있다. 하지만 현재 트랙롤러 대부분의 시험은 수직하중을 가한 상태의 시험만을 수행하고 있다. 이는 트랙롤러가 장착된 건설기계의 선회주행시 발생되고 있는 수평방향에서 가해지는 하중을 고려하지 않은 시험평가로 실제 주행조건을 재현하지 못하는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 트랙롤러에 가해지는 수직 및 수평방향 하중 크기와 이를 고려한 시험조건을 정립하였다. 또한 수평방향 하중이 트랙롤러의 고장에 미치는 영향에 대한 해석과 시험의 결과를 제시하였다.

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