Design and Analysis of Loader Attachment to Hydraulic Excavator

Excavators provide solutions for handling materials within the confined areas of a tunnel. A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers. Other uses include routing power or telecommunication cables. The effective use of expensive construction machines has made it necessary to improve the performance characteristics of machines such as operating reach parameters and fault free operation within a tunnel. All these require for the study of the kinematics of the specified construction equipment.In this book concept has been discussed with respect to an existing 13 Ton class excavator manufactured by L&T KOMATSU Limited, Bangalore. The kinematics of the excavator needs to be altered suitably so that it can work within the tunnel of 5 meter dimension (customer requirement).The aim of this book is to study the kinematic reach and forces developed, create a conceptual design, modeling using CATIA and Pro/Engineer and the analysis of the design using ANSYS.