A new system was designed in portable plants-eater to improve the performance and
productivity and for using it in the harsh environment containing like-cane dense brushes
with high efficiency, quality and lowest power requirement and to harvest so
me crops are
grown in small areas. The new system includes three types: link chain, straight blades
chain and oblique blades chain, each chain is fixed on central aluminum disk. the three
chains were tested on tensile, the results were satisfactory. The cutters was tested in the
field on four types of stalk Wheat, Yellow Maize, Sorghum Helpenese and imperata
cylindrical. Cutting force, productivity, fuel consumption, power requirement was
calculated with deferent rotation speeds. The straight blades chain has the best cutting
quality and lowest energy requirement on maize and sorghum halepense, the oblique
blades chain was better on wheat and imperata cylindrical. The greatest values of energy
requirement and cutting forces appeared with link chain cutter-head. In general, these
cutter-heads are useable in weed-eater with higher efficiency than the old designs.
Clayey expansive soils are fine grained soil with a low strength. Its
swelling potential and shear strength are significantly affected by
the water content.
This research aims to study the effect of the initial water content
on both shear strength and the required displacement to reach the
maximum strength.
