Abstract

The scope of this paper is to analyse the strength and hardness of the sugarcane roller shaft, which has the main contribution in the sugarcane industries. Forged steel is used for making sugarcane roller shaft, in that, the fatigue level at the pinion end of the shaft causes more shearing effect with high fatigue level, so to eradicate these faults, the roller shafts was designed and analyzed. This paper deals with minimizing or reducing the effect of fatigue on the roller shaft. For minimizing the fatigue level, the following parameters are considered, they are; over loading of bagasse, due to over loading of sugarcane in the cane milling, and the pressure is increased. The increased pressure is due to materials like iron or steel that is too big and too hard, so that, there is high friction between the gun metals with the shaft. Lubrication and cooling is insufficient due to increase in pressure between the rollers. The performance of the roller shaft was fully analyzed for eliminating the shearing of roller shaft, combination of materials, change in deformation, minimizing the erosion due to friction and thermal distribution. For analyzing the strength of the material, load bearing capacity, material deformation, stress and thermal distribution in the roller shaft, ANSYS software is used and for designing PRO – E software is used. When the fatigue affecting factors are reduced, the aesthetic value of roller shaft is in good level.

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