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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4081/jae.2018.755

Multibody model of fruit harvesting trucks: comparison with experimental data and rollover analysis

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Received: 12 July 2017
Published: 9 July 2018
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Multibody modelling, harvesting truck, rollover, mass distribution, tire-soil stiffness.
Agricultural Engineering

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Stefano Melzi
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Edoardo Sabbioni
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4356-8814 (unauthenticated)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Michele Vignati
michele.vignati@polimi.it
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8403-355X (unauthenticated)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Maurizio Cutini
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA), Treviglio (BG), Italy.
Massimo Brambilla
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA), Treviglio (BG), Italy.
Carlo Bisaglia
Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CREA), Treviglio (BG), Italy.
Eugenio Cavallo
Institute for Agricultural and Earthmoving Machines (IMAMOTER), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Torino, Italy.
Fruit harvesting trucks are used to easy and speed-up the work of agricultural operators. These vehicles are provided with a moving cargo bed, which can be raised up to 3 meters from the ground so that workers are closer to the plants top. Due to factors like height of centre of gravity and operation on soft and irregular soil, these vehicles present several safety issues. This research, carried out inside a project funded by INAIL (Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work), analysed the stability of fruit harvesting trucks with particular focus on rollover risk. Experimental tests were carried out to characterise the response of these vehicles. Multibody models of two trucks were then developed and used to determine the rollover angle along a generic direction considering the effect of vehicle configuration and of tire-soil stiffness.

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“Multibody model of fruit harvesting trucks: comparison with experimental data and rollover analysis” (2018) Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 49(2), pp. 92–99. doi:10.4081/jae.2018.755.

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