KISHIMOTO Tadashi Professor
ThemeDesing of farm tractor lug shape
Belongs
Research Department/Department of Agro-environmental Science/Division of Environmental and Agricultural Engineering/Section of Environmental and Agricultural Engineering| Field | Agricultural environmental engineering, Agricultural energy engineering, Agricultural machinery |
| Keyword | Tractor, Agricultural tire, Radial tire, Traction, Motion resistance, Dynamic load, Lift resistance, Vertual hitch point, Load transfer, Tillage machinery |
Introduction
Motion analysis of agricultural tire lugs were conducted and obtained the characteristics of tire-lug interactions. Lug design equation for installing angel of a trailing lug side was obtained through the idea of the reduction of the motion resistance. Three-sided lug transducers and an axis type transdeucerwere newly designed and developed and clarified the characteristics of soil-lug interaction by experiments. Those transducers were also able to measure the lift resistance. Tire experiments with pressure sensors on leading and trailing lug side and three directional load cell on the lug face were conducted and obtained the relationships between lug components and the external forces under traction and braking conditions.
Slurry injector disk experiments showed that the thinner disk thickness and larger diameter can reduced the cutting resistance of the injector disk with a new disk tester.
List of current research topics
- Dynamic analysis of traction and braking conditions of agricultural vehicle
- Design theories of agricultural tire lug
- Analysis of soil compaction phenomena and its reduction through tire design
- Application technology for animal effluent to field
- Bio-diesel fuel production from inedible energy crop in tropical zone
| Affiliated academic society | The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science, International Society of Terrain Vehicle Systems, American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Japanese Society of Farm Work Research, The Society of Agricultural Structures, Japan, The Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering |
| Academic degree | Ph.D. |
| License | Driver's licence(middle size vehicle, special vehicle,trailer), Crane oeperation(less than 5 t), Slinging operation |
| Self introduction |
I am from Fukuoka city in Kyushu. I have been conducting research on the field of "Terramechanics" as analyzing of the phenomena between soil and tractor or tillage machinery. Slurry injection machinery and the production of bio-diesel fuel are also |
| Room address | General Research Building I |
| Room number | N2302-2 |
| Mail address | tksmt 
obihiro.ac.jp |
