Selection of rational parameters of the cone roller for deep compaction of road bases

The article is devoted to the method of designing a cone roller for deep compaction of soil used as the working body of a crawler excavator. One of the most important design parameters of a cone roll is the angle of the cone. Known methods allow determining the cone angle for other technological tasks, for example, for loosening frozen soil, and cannot be directly applied to solve the problem. The authors propose an original method for selecting rational parameters of a cone roller head, including the angle of the cone. The method uses a mathematical model of the interaction of a cone roller with compacted soil. In the process of solving the mathematical model are the following parameters: the dependence of the area of the lateral surface of a cone, the dependence of the volume of displaced soil on the contact surface of the cone from the contact patch, the total force, cone force acting on the ground torsional, and axial force in the implementation of the cone, applied by the excavator boom. To identify the optimal value of the cone angle, the function of the volume of displaced soil from the cone angle and the axial force during penetration from the cone angle was studied. As a result, it is determined that the optimal angle of the cone is 240, which will provide the greatest efficiency according to the performance / cost criterion.