Manufacturing Technology 2020, 20(3):286-292 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2020.044

Modification of a design of a wheel-tracked chassis of a mine clearing machine

Miroslav Blatnický, Ján Dižo, Jozef Harušinec
Department of Transport and Handling Machines, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Žilina. Uni-verzitná 8215/1, 010 26 Žilina. Slovak Republic

This article is aimed at design of a support and a tension mechanism to be mounted on a wheel-tracked chassis of a mine clearing machine. The subject machine serves to detect and disposal mines in terrain. The main advantage of this machine is the possibility to use it from the safe distance thanks a remote control. The wheel-tracked chassis mounted on the machine ensures that the machine is able to overcome extreme obstacles of a terrain. The solved design of the wheel-tracked chassis can be modifying to move using just wheels for better driving properties on metalled roads. Current design of the wheel-tracked chassis goes out from the older technical solution, which has been designed for a four-wheeled machine. The latest version of the chassis is designed for a six-wheeled machine. Application of an original structure of the chassis meets problems consisted in formation of ckacks in tracks struc-ture therefore the current structure of tracks has to be modified in order to meet all requirements in term of strength and long-term operation. At the same time, two design of a tension mechanism are presented. A tension mechanism is additional device, which will be mounted to the chassis and it will ensure the optimal position of tracks in every load case.

Keywords: Mine clearing machine, Wheel-tracked chassis, Strength analysis, Tension mechanism
Grants and funding:

The Cultural and Educational Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic in project No. KEGA 077ŽU-4/2017:  Modernization of the Vehicles and engines study program.

Received: May 1, 2020; Revised: July 16, 2020; Accepted: July 20, 2020; Prepublished online: September 3, 2020; Published: September 7, 2020  Show citation

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Blatnický M, Dižo J, Harušinec J. Modification of a design of a wheel-tracked chassis of a mine clearing machine. Manufacturing Technology. 2020;20(3):286-292. doi: 10.21062/mft.2020.044.
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