Design of Farm Machinery

Lectures

Week 1

1. Lecture 01 : Moldboard plow Video
2. Lecture 02 : Forces acting on moldboard plow Video
3. Lecture 03 : Draft of moldboard plow Video
4. Lecture 04 : Disk plow Video
5. Lecture 05 : Disk Harrow Video

Week 2

6. Lecture 06 : Design of Disk Harrow Video
7. Lecture 07 : Numericals related to design of tractor drawn disk harrow Video
8. Lecture 08 : Design of a Tractor drawn Disk Harrow Video
9. Lecture 09 : Design of spike tooth harrow Video
10. Lecture 10 : Cultivator Video

Week 3

11. Lecture 11 : Forces and moments acting on the shank and frame of a cultivator Video
12. Lecture 12 : Design of tractor drawn cultivator Video
13. Lecture 13 : Rotavator Video
14. Lecture 14 : Soil resistance and specific work of the rotavator Video
15. Lecture 15 : Design of components of a rotavator Video

Week 4

16. Lecture 16 : Design of a tractor drawn rotavator Video
17. Lecture 17 : Design of a tractor drawn rotavator (reversed mode) Video
18. Lecture 18 : Combination tillage implements Video
19. Lecture 19 : Draft and power requirement of combination tillage implements Video
20. Lecture 20 : Design of a passive-passive combination tillage implement Video

Week 5

21. Lecture 21 : Design of an active-passive combination tillage implement Video
22. Lecture 22 : Computation on design of active-passive tillage implement Video
23. Lecture 23 : Performance parameters Video
24. Lecture 24 : Performance parameters (Contd.) Video
25. Lecture 25 : Tillage performance index Video

Week 6

26. Lecture 26 : Seed drill/planter Video
27. Lecture 27 : Components of seed drill and its calibration Video
28. Lecture 28 : Performance evaluation of metering unit and design of hopper Video
29. Lecture 29 : Designs of fluted roller metering unit and ground wheel Video
30. Lecture 30 : Design of single seed metering unit Video

Week 7

31. Lecture 31 : Designs of feed roll shaft, furrow openers and frame Video
32. Lecture 32 : Design calculations for fluted roller metering unit and hopper Video
33. Lecture 33 : Seed tube and furrow closer Video
34. Lecture 34 : Seed flow sensing in a seed drill Video
35. Lecture 35 : Design of drum seeder Video

Week 8

36. Lecture 36 : Design of multi-crop drum seeder Video
37. Lecture 37 : Deciding the dimensions of a multi-crop dryland drum seeder Video
38. Lecture 38 : Design of a remote controlled drum seeder for wetland Video
39. Lecture 39 : Granular chemical applicators Video
40. Lecture 40 : Liquid chemical applicators Video

Week 9

41. Lecture 41 : Low pressure liquid chemical applicators Video
42. Lecture 42 : Selection of pumps for liquid chemical applicators Video
43. Lecture 43 : Atomizers Video
44. Lecture 44 : Performance evaluation of sprayers Video
45. Lecture 45 : Droplet size determination Video

Week 10

46. Lecture 46 : Factors affecting droplet size Video
47. Lecture 47 : Solar Energy operated unmanned sprayer Video
48. Lecture 48 : Working principle of harvesters Video
49. Lecture 49 : Components of harvesting equipment with shear cutting Video
50. Lecture 50 : Geometry of knife section and model for estimating load causing failure of stem Video

Week 11

51. Lecture 51 : Design of a self-propelled vertical conveyor reaper Video
52. Lecture 52 : Numericals related to cutting by impact and shear Video
53. Lecture 53 : Design of an electric-vertical conveyor reaper (E-VCR) Video
54. Lecture 54 : Power requirement and field performance of an electric vertical conveyor reaper Video
55. Lecture 55 : Onion topper cum digger Video

Week 12

56. Lecture 56 : Classification, working principle and factors influencing performance of threshing equipment Video
57. Lecture 57 : Power requirement of threshing equipment and design informations Video
58. Lecture 58 : Performance parameter for evaluation of threshers Video
59. Lecture 59 : Design of a spike tooth thresher Video
60. Lecture 60 : Solar energy operated thresher Video