VIRTUAL SIMULATION OF ROPS ON THE CABIN STRUCTURE

Rajesab Diddimni, Ravichandra Doddamani, S.N.Kurbet

Abstract: Rollover protective structure is an additional safety structure provided to safe guard the driver/occupant operating the heavy machinery, which are basically used in the mining, forests, material handling, agriculture and rural areas operation in non uniform surface, large weight and high center of gravity make this susceptible to dynamic stability. The risk for rollover of earth movers are being increased day by day. Under these conditions the rollover protective system is to protect the occupant and driver. The model of ROPS is created by using CAD software. Meshing is created by using HYPERMESH software. FEA analysis of ROPS is carried by using the ABAQUS software. This paper deals with the energy absorbed by the ROPS during the rollover of a vehicle in different Loading conditions and Deflection of ROPs well within the safe limit accordance to the ISO 3471:2008.

Keywords: ROPS, FEA, Cabin, CAD.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0505066