Article

Received 15.07.2025

Revised 19.11.2025

Accepted 15.12.2025

Retrieved from Iss. 118, P. 2, 2025

Pages 237 -247

Musiiko, V., Koval, A., Nikolaienko, V., Horidko, N., Patsora, D., & Dubinin, M. (2025). EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS TO INVESTIGATE THE SPATIAL FORCE LOAD OF COMPLEX MECHANICAL SYSTEMS. Automobile Roads and Road Construction, (118.2), 237-247. https://doi.org/10.33744/0365-8171-2025-118.2-237-247

EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS TO INVESTIGATE THE SPATIAL FORCE LOAD OF COMPLEX MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Volodymyr Musiiko Andrii Koval Volodymyr Nikolaienko Nataliia Horidko Danylo Patsora Maksym Dubinin

The article examines the justification for designing and creating the equipment to determine the characteristics of spatial force loading on physical models of continuous earthmoving machinery actuators in real time when digging the soil. It also discusses measuring and registering tools for recording the parameters of force load when developing the soil. Research objective: The creation of equipment and registering tools for determining the characteristics of spatial force load of complex mechanical systems. Research object: Operating equipment of trenching and excavation continuous earthmoving machinery. Research method: Experimental. As a result of the conducted research, measuring equipment has been developed in the form of a strain gauge suspension for model structures of the studied operating equipment for trenching and excavation machinery. The equipment enables real-time measurement of the magnitudes and coordinates of applying spatial components of external forces and their moments to the studied mechanical system. Based on strain gauge measurements, determining the magnitudes of external forces and their moments is provided mathematically and by adding or subtracting electrical signals received from strain gauges of corresponding pairs of strain links. A measuring and registering complex with a set of analog and discrete sensors has been developed to register actual loads applied to the studied operating equipment of earthmoving machinery. This complex enables measuring and registering the actual loads in the system with an accuracy of ± 5 % of the real value. The complex enables to read and record the received information on a micro SD memory card, to convert the received signals into digital code, and store the received information (measurement results) on a digital medium for its further processing and analysis. 

force, moment, mechanical system, strain measurement, earthmoving machinery, measuring complex, sensor, memory card, digital code, amplifier, strain gauge module
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