Abstract—In Central India, various small scale industries are adopting the crude methodologies for designing and manufacturing the machine components. One such industry producing tractor trolleys for agricultural use has been identified for this study. The existing trolley designed by the industry uses heavy axle without considering static and dynamic loading conditions which in turn leads to higher factor of safety increasing the overall cost of the axle. In this study, existing trolley axle is comparatively analysed by considering the static and dynamic load conditions. Tractor trolley or trailers are very popular and cheaper mode of goods transport in rural as well as urban area. But these trailers are manufactured in small scale to moderate scale industry. Especially in the small- and middle-scale agricultural machinery industry, insufficient use of new technology and new design features can cause problems such as breakdowns and failures during field operations. In present work finite element analysis approach is used to make a safer working condition of trolley axle as well as for stress concentration, weight and cost reduction of existing trolley axle.

Index Terms—Trolley axle, Safety working condition, Cost reduction, PROE, ANSYS 12

Cite: Manish S Lande and Sunil J Rajpal, "Comparative Analysis of Tractors Trolley Axle by using FEA (By considering change in materials existing shape and size)," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, Vol.2 No.3, pp. 157-167, July 2013.