Dynamic Analysis of Excavator Arm Used for Breaking Operation

Abstract

So far excavator retrofitting breaking hammer is commonly applied to impact breaking operation on rock, mountain and building body in engineering field. In practical operation fracture of the movable excavator arm frequently occurs. This thesis, in terms of dynamics, considers the breaking machine under three typical working conditions and aims at respective load solutions for the hinge point of the movable arm under each working condition. Modal analysis and harmonic response for the movable arm is conducted by means of finite element software. Analysis shows that the movable arm would not resonate at relatively high frequencies and external excitation load affects the movable arm noticeably at low frequencies. Damping increase of the working device of the breaking machine is needed to enable the external excitation frequency to avoid the primary and secondary inherent frequencies, and thus reduce the resonation opportunity of the movable arm.