Farm Machinery Design (AT-702 (B))-Agriculture Technology (VII) | RGPV

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• Syllabus

• Syllabus - Farm Machinery Design (AT-702 (B))

• Farm machinery design

• Modern trends in farm machinery design
• Tasks and requirements in farm machinery design
• Economic considerations in farm machinery design
• Durability, reliability and rigidity in farm machinery design

• Physico mechanical properties of soils

• Technological process of ploughing
• Design of coulters, shares, mould boards

• Machines and implements for surface and inter row tillage

• Peg toothed harrow, disk harrows, rotary hoes, graders, rollers, cultivators
• Design of V shaped sweeps
• Rigidity of working tools

• Rotary machines

• Trajectory of motion of rotary tiller tynes
• Forces acting on rotary machines
• Power requirement of rotary machines

• Machines with working tools executing an oscillatory motion

• Design considerations for Grain hoppers
• Machines for fertilizer application
• Planting and transplanting
• Hydraulic nozzles and sprayer design principles

• Crop harvesting

• Plant properties
• Harvesters
• Cereal threshing and separation