ISSN No: 2309-4893

International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Global Technology

I Vol-05, Issue-03, May 2017

Design And Stress Analysis Of Multi-purpose

Power Tiller
B Tech Pursuer Abin Thomas1 Arun P P2 Arun Thomas3
B Tech Pursuer B Tech Pursuer B Tech Pursuer
Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering
Nirmala College Of Engineering Nirmala College Of Engineering Nirmala College Of Engineering
Thrissur, Kerala Thrissur, Kerala Thrissur, Kerala

Aswin Chandran4 Athul Anilan5 Rineesh A D6

B Tech Pursuer B Tech Pursuer
Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering
Nirmala College Of Engineering Nirmala College Of Engineering Nirmala College Of Engineering
Thrissur, Kerala Thrissur, Kerala Thrissur, Kerala

Deepak K7
Assistant Professor
Dept. Of Mechanical Engineering
Nirmala College Of Engineering
Thrissur, Kerala

Abstract— A multi-purpose power tiller is a machine or vehicle
which is mainly used in agricultural field for ploughing, weeding,
pumping, etc. The aim of our project is to implement a thresher on
the blade shaft. Before that implementation, we will design the
thresher and done the stress analysis on the thresher. The
operation of detaching the grains from the ear head, cob or pod is
called threshing. It is basically the removal of grains from the plant
by striking on the rotating thresher. The thresher and blade shaft
are analyzed with the help of ANSYS Workbench and conclusions
have been made.
Keywords—multi-purpose power tiller, static structural
analysis, thresher, blade shaft
I. INTRODUCTION
A power tiller is a machine or vehicle and is mainly used in
agricultural field for ploughing, weeding, pumping, etc. In
modern power tiller, it consists of shaft which has many blades
and is placed on the back side. The blades on the shaft are
bolted. These blades are used for removing the weed present in
agricultural areas. This shaft is driven by engine power. The
model of the power tiller is KMB 200 DI which is produced in
Kerala Agro Machinery Corporation Ltd.(KAMCO).
Commonly, threshing is done by using man power or other
threshing machines. The operation of detaching the grains from
the ear head, cob or pod is called threshing. It is basically the
removal of grains from the plant by striking on the rotating
thresher. The aim of our project is to implement a thresher on
the blade shaft. Before that implementation, we will design the
thresher and done the stress analysis on the thresher.
The design calculations of parts like bearings, gears, belts,
pulley, chain and chain sprocket, blade shaft etc. were done by
ourselves with the help from our project guide and professors
from mechanical department. Modeling of parts like engine,
frame, belt drive, chain drive, thresher drum, blade shaft etc.
were done as per our knowledge and ideas by using Autodesk
Inventor Professional 2016. The thresher and blade shaft are
analyzed with the help of ANSYS Workbench.
II. DESIGN OF DRIVE SYSTEM
For the thresher implementation we uses KAMCO
power tiller model KMB 200. The power provided by the
engine is 12 HP. The speed of the engine is 2000 RPM. The fuel
consumption of the engine is 1.5 liter per hour. The capacity of
the fuel tank is 10.70 liters.
The specifications of engine were obtained and a
model of the engine was made in Autodesk Inventor
Professional 2016. The thresher is driven by engine power by
using V-belt drive and chain drive.
A. Design Of Belt Drive
In order to transmit power from engine to rotary shaft V-
Belt drive system is used. The calculations were done
following the books Machine Design and Design Data.
Specifications are given in Table 1. The 3D model was created
in Autodesk Inventor Professional 2016.
The V-belts have a trapezoidal cross section and is mounted on
a pulley with ‘V’ groove. It is now the basic belt for power
transmission. They provide the best combination of traction,
speed of movement, load of the bearings, and long service life.
This belt is classified based on cross section of belt.

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The 3D view and 2D drawing of V-belt drive is shown below. Machine Design and design Data. The specifications are given
It is created by using the specifications found in design in the table 2. The 3D model was created in Autodesk Inventor
calculations. The speed of larger pulley is 1991 RPM. Professional 2016.
Table 2: Specifications of chain drive
Type of chain ISO/DIN 12A-1

Type of belt Type B78 IS:2494 V-Belt Number of teeth on sprocket 1 12 nos

Diameter of smaller 140 mm Number of teeth on sprocket 2 15 nos

pulley Diameter of sprocket 1 73.6 mm
Diameter of larger pulley 210 mm Diameter of sprocket 1 91.62 mm
Centre distance 746 mm Speed of sprocket 1 391 RPM
No. of belts 3 Speed of sprocket 1 269 RPM
Centre to centre distance 19 mm Pitch 19.05 mm
of groove
Length of chain 1033 mm
Edge of pulley to first 12.5 mm
groove Centre distance 366 mm
Width of pulley 63 mm
Table 1 Specifications of V-Belt

Fig 1 V-Belt 2D Sketch

Fig 3 Chain drive 2D Sketch

Fig 2 V-Belt 3D
B. Design Of chain drive
Chain drive is a way of transmitting mechanical power from
one place to another. It is often used to convey power to the Fig 4 Chain drive 3D Sketch
wheels of a vehicle, particularly bicycles and motorcycles. It is
also used in a wide variety of machines besides vehicles. Here
the chain is used for transmitting power from rotary shaft to
blade shaft. The calculations were done following the books

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III. DESIGN OF BLADE SHAFT

A shaft is a rotating machine element, usually circular in cross
section, which is used to transmit power from one part to
another, or from a machine which produces power to a machine
which absorbs power. The various members such
as pulleys and gears are mounted on it. The power tiller have
already a blade shaft which have 20 weeding blades. We are
proposed to implement the thresher over these blades. So we
redesigned the blade shaft for carrying the thresher. The model
was designed using Autodesk Inventor Professional 2016. We
put this shaft into structural analysis by giving more weight than
thresher in ANSYS Workbench.

Diameter of shaft 50 mm

Table 3: Specification of blade shaft

Fig 6 Mesh
The default mapped meshing with element size set to coarse
were used here. The total number of nodes and elements
generated here is 415508 and 268459 respectively.

Fig 5 Blade shaft 3D Sketch

Analysis was carried out on the blade shaft considering a
load of 350 N as the load. The results of the analysis are shown
in table 3.

Load applied 350 N

Material Structural steel
Maximum 0.22014 mm
deformation Fig 7 Force applied
In this analysis, 350 N is acted on the blade shaft which is
Maximum stress 227.13 MPa
represented by red colour in the figure. The load is given to blade
shaft by fixing two ends of shaft. Below figures shows the
analysis results.
Table 3 Blade shaft - Analysis Results

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Fig 8 Total Deformation Fig 10 Thresher blade 3D sketch

Fig 9 Equivalent Stress Fig 11 Mesh on thresher blade

Fig 8 shows the total deformation of the blade shaft, it ranges

from a minimum value of 0 mm to 0.22014 mm. Fig 9 shows the
equivalent Von Mises stress which ranges from 7.61MPa to
227.13MPa. This value is less than the yield strength of
structural steel which is 250 MPa.
IV. DESIGN OF THRESHER BLADE
The thresher blade is the blade which is fixing on the thresher
drum. The plant with grains are separated by striking on these
rotating blades in thresher. Mild steel rod is the material used
for manufacturing these blades. The model of the blade is
designed by using Autodesk Inventor Professional 2016. The
analysis of blade done by using ANSYS Workbench. The
below figure shows the 3D model view of thresher blade.

Fig 12 Load applied

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The default mapped meshing with element size set to coarse

were used here. The total number of nodes and elements generated
here is 5348 and 2668 respectively. For doing analysis, we applied
a load on the point statically in the blade. Before applying force,
we must fix the other points. The applied force is 150 N. Figure
12 shows the force is applied on the blade. That we can see in the
figure as marked in red arrow in the figure. Below figures shows
the results after analysis.

Fig 15 Safety Factor

V. DESIGN OF THRESHER DRUM

A threshing machine or thresher is a piece of farm
equipment that threshes grain, that is, removes the seeds from
the stalks and husks. It does so by beating the plant to make the
seeds fall out. Before such machines were
developed, threshing was done by hand with flails, and such
hand threshing was very laborious and time-consuming, taking
Fig 13 Total Deformation about one-quarter of agricultural labor by the 18th
century. Mechanization of this process removed a substantial
amount of drudgery from farm labor. The first threshing
machine was invented circa 1786 by the Scottish
engineer Andrew Meikle.
The following figures(16 &17) are the two parts of the thresher
drum before assembling. After this assembling, the designed
blades are fixed on the drum. This 3D model design will be
shown in figure 18. These models are designed in Autodesk
Inventor Professional 2016. After the model designing, it will be
analyzed with the help of ANSYS Workbench for determining
the deformation, equivalent stress, etc.

Fig 14 Equivalent Stress

Fig 13 shows the total deformation of the threhser blade. It

ranges from a minimum value of 0 mm to 0.19017 mm. Fig 14
shows the equivalent Von Mises stress which ranges from
0.0066758MPa to 151.52MPa. This value is less than the yield
strength of mild steel which is 250 MPa. Fig 15 shows the safety
factor of 1.8479. In these figures, the maximum values will be
represented in red colour and minimum values will be Fig 16 First part of thresher drum
represented in blue colour.

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Figure 19 shows the 2D sketch of thresher drum. Below table

(table 4) shows the specifications of thresher drum.
Material used Mild steel sheet
Thickness of sheet 3 mm
Length of thresher drum 670 mm
Diameter of drum 480 mm
Table 4 Specifications of thresher drum
Below figures shows the analysis and their results of thresher
drum.

Fig 17 Second part of thresher drum

Fig 20 Mesh on thresher

Fig 18 Thresher drum 3D sketch

Fig 19 Thresher drum 2D sketch Fig 21 Load applied

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The default mapped meshing with element size set to coarse VI. FINAL ASSEMBLY
were used here. The total number of nodes and elements
generated here is 351472 and 167272 respectively. For doing
analysis, we applied a load on the thresher based on pressure by The rendered image of final assembly are shown below
statically. So the applied pressure is 1.29*10-4MPa. Before
applying force, we must fix the two ends. Figure 21 shows the
pressure is applied on the thresher. That we can see in the figure
as marked in red arrow in the figure. Below figures shows the
results after analysis.

Fig 24 Isometric view of multi-purpose power tiller

VII. CONCLUSION

We successfully designed and analyzed the multi-purpose

Fig 22 Total deformation power tiller by our self. The key factor of our design is
simplicity and cost reduction. The design of thresher drum and
blade shaft ensures better strength and reliability which was
proved using analysis results. Addition of thresher drum on
tiller will get two in one opportunity to farmers in low cost.
From the analysis we are sure that the implementation of
thresher gives positive results.

REFERENCES
[1] Muhammad Muneer Uz Zaman was published the journal
about the Design of Rotary Tiller with Grass Cutter. (ISSN:
2321-8169) volume 3, issue 2, 079-083)
[2] R.S Khurmi, J K Gupta,”Machine Design”, Eurasia
Publication House,(2005),727-758
[3] PSG College Of Technology,”Design Data”, Kalaikathir
Achangam Pulications,(2013)
[4] A text book of “ Machine Design” by Jalaluddin
[5] www.kamcoindia.com

Figure 23 Equivalent stress

Fig 22 shows the total deformation of the threhser drum. It

ranges from a minimum value of 0 mm to 0.2.9005 mm. Fig 23
shows the equivalent Von Mises stress which ranges from
1.67*10-5MPa to 121.13MPa. This value is less than the yield
strength of mild steel which is 250 MPa.

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