某混凝土泵車(chē)泵送系統(tǒng)設(shè)計(jì),混凝土泵,車(chē)泵送,系統(tǒng),設(shè)計(jì) Simulation and Optimization of the Driving Forces of Hydraulic Cylinders for Boom of Truck Mounted Concrete PumpZHONG Zhihong, WU Yunxin, MA ChangxunCollege of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, ChinaE-mail: Abstract-In order to obtain the maximum driving forces of hydraulic cylinders in the process of boom design, the solid model was built in Pro/E and then imported into ADAMS where the dynamic simulation model was established.Processes of the boom transforming from horizontal to typical poses were simulated and driving force variation curves of the hydraulic cylinders were generated. Accordingto the results, location of the joint connecting cylinder 2 and the links was optimized in ADAMS and the driving force decreased as a result. It is instructive to structure design of boom.Keywords-simulation;optimization;drivingforce;hydraulic cylinder; boom; Pro/E; ADAMSI.INTRODUCTIONTruck mounted concrete pump is a large engineering machinery used for concrete pouring. It is mainly composed of chassis, concrete pump and boom system,among which boom system best reflects characteristics of a truck mounted concrete pump. Boom systems safety, reliability and advancement are key factors that determine the competence of a truck mounted concrete pump 1 and its structure is as shown in Figure1. In order to study the boom system better, a laboratory designed a four-arm boom model which is approximately 13 meters long. After devisingthe boom structure and hydraulic system principle preliminarily, dynamic simulation and structure optimization are necessary in order to determine the oil pressure and cylinder dimensions et al.There are many previous literatures studying the structural strength 1-4 and dynamics 5-7 on boom of truck mounted pump, but less concerning structural design and optimization. In this paper virtual prototype of the boom was established with combination of Pro/E and ADAMS, and processes of the boom transforming from horizontal which is traditionally treated as the most dangerous working case to several typical poses in afour-arm-rotate-together way were simulated. Then the structure was optimized according to the simulation results.1 Turret 2 Arm 3 Hydraulic cylinder 4 LinkFigure 1. Structure of boomII.ESTABLISHMENT OF SIMULATION MODELA.3-D model building in Pro/EIn order to obtain accurate mass attributes including mass, centroid and moment of inertia, 3-D model should be built according to the dimension formerly designed as much as possible. Synchronously, details which have insignificant influence on overall mechanical property of the model should be simplified because too complicatedmodel may result in curves or surfaces missing in ADAMS. Based on this, in this paper each arm of the boom is built as a part and some details are simplified.According to the preliminarily designed drawings,turret, arms, hydraulic cylinders and links are built in powerful 3-D model building software Pro/E respectively,and then assemble them in bottom to top way into a boom which presents a horizontal pose as shown in Figure 2. 1 2 3 4 2011 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation978-0-7695-4353-6/11 $26.00 2011 IEEEDOI 10.1109/ICICTA.2011.2309412011 Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation978-0-7695-4353-6/11 $26.00 2011 IEEEDOI 10.1109/ICICTA.2011.230915Figure 2. Solid model of the boomB.Model transfer and simulation model building inADAMS3-D model built in Pro/E can be imported into ADAMS by means of Mechanism/Pro which is the exclusive interface software between Pro/E and ADAMS provided by MSC. After installation and initial settings, Mechanism/ProwillappearinPro/Esassembly environment as a cascading menu in which rigid body definition, constraints applying, data transfer parameter settings and simple simulation et al. can be performed. Here we define each part of the boom as a rigid body, and establish a marker at every center of all the shafts for convenient positioning where a revolute joint will becreated later. Then the model can be transferred to ADAMS by Mechanism/Pro. There may be problems with the model that it does not display but its mass and moment of inertia et al. exist. This can be solved by returning to Pro/E to simplify the model further or doing as what is introduced in reference 8, which the paper will not elaborate.Firstly the materials of the boom and the gravity should be defined in ADAMS. Then constraints between parts should be created according to actual situations oftruck mounted concrete pump: the rotational degree of freedom of the boom as an entirety will not be consideredin this paper, so we fix the turret to the ground; we establish revolute joints at each center of all the shafts connecting different parts and translational joints between every pair of cylinder and piston rod. Whats more, four translational joint motions are applied on the four translational joints respectively.III.SIMULATION OF DRIVING FORCESDynamic simulations include forward simulation and reverse simulation: the forward studies dynamic responsesincluding accelerations, velocities, displacements and constraint forces et al. of a mechanical system under external forces or couples; the reverse solves forces with known motion parameters such as velocities, accelerationsand trajectories el al. In this paper we carry out reverse simulation of the boom model in ADAMS, that is, we define velocities of the four cylinders according to actual situation and simulate them in order to obtain their driving force variation curves in different motions.Boom works in diverse poses which usually can bedivided into several typical working poses such as foundation, roof, wall and so on. The boom can transform poses in a four-arm-rotate-together way; also it can rotateeach arm independently. So there are thousands of movement combinations. It is not only unnecessary but also impossible to simulate all cases. In this paperprocesses of the boom transforming from horizontal to the above three typical poses and vertical are simulated.A typical working pose does not mean a unique attitude. In this paper we define the angle combinationsbetween arms and the horizontal of the three above typical poses as 75,15,-15,-75 ? 75,45,15,-45 ?75,75,45,-30 respectively. According to the preliminary design of the hydraulic system, the maximumvelocity of piston is 20 mm/s with which in simulation velocity settings should comply. Regulating the velocities of each piston, simulations of the four processesmentioned above can be accomplished. After that, driving force variation curves of the cylinders in these processes are generated as shown in Figure 3-Figure 6.Figure 3.Driving force curve from horizontal to foundation942916Figure 4. Driving force curve from horizontal to roofFigure 5. Driving force curve from horizontal to wallFigure 6. Driving force curve from horizontal to verticalFrom the graphs shown above we can find that driving forces of cylinder 2, 3 and 4 reach their maximums when the boom is horizontal, while cylinder 1 is not the case. Therefore, designing a boom just as the traditional opinion that the horizontal pose is the most dangerous is not reasonable. Considering the special structure, driving force of cylinder 4 is far lower than the others is easy to understand. However, the maximum driving force of cylinder 2 reaches 90000 N which is much larger thancylinder 1 and 3. This may result in excessive high oilpressure or too large cylinder by tentative calculation. The former is unfavorable to design of hydraulic system; the later may lead to interference. As a result, structure of cylinder 2 and the links should be optimized in order to diminish the driving force.IV.OPTIMIZATIONAccording to mechanism theory, the structure which is comprised of two arms, two links, a cylinder and a piston rod as shown in Figure7 is a planar six-bar mechanism anddiminishing the driving force of cylinder 2 can be realizedby changing the location of joint A. We may build several groups of links with different lengths and reassemble the model and simulate them respectively, then select the best. However this is not an efficient approach. ADAMS provides convenient parameterization and optimization function. In this paper we perform the optimization of location of joint A in ADAMS.Figure 7. Structure of cylinder 2 and the linksSolid model imported in ADAMS cannot be optimized directly. The method we take is as follows: firstly deletecylinder 2 and the two links which are to be parameterizedand substitute standard components such as links in ADAMS for them; then parameterize coordinates of joint A and their lengths can be optimized by doing so.Optimization is a process of finding the objective function extrema under the condition that all design variables meet the constraints during their value ranges.A.Design variablesHere we define coordinates of joint A as design variables and mark them as DVX, DVYB.Constraintfunctionsrespectively.In order to meet requirements of the booms arbitrary transformation, folding and avoid interference after optimization, coordinates of joint A should be restricted and some constraints should be set as follows:3750 ? ? 4100,0 ? ?Y? 175 ?1?943917s.t. ? f1(?,?) = 200 ? ? 0 (2)f2(?,?) = ? 400 ? 0 (3)f3(?,?) = 200? ? 0 (4)f4(?,?) = ? 400 ? 0 (5)f5(?,?) = Abs(? ?)? 20 ? 0 (6)?where s.t. means subject to; LABand LACC.Objective functionare the lengths of the two links which are functions of coordinates of joint A;(2)(5) limit the two links lengths between 200 mm and 400 mm; (6) restricts the link length deference no more than 20 mm.According to the previousresults generated by simulation we know that driving force of cylinder 2 is largest when it is horizontal, so we replace cylinder 2 witha link and just perform static optimization when it is horizontal so as to simplify the process. So we can define the objective function as minimizing of the reaction force measurement function of the substitute link:min(Force_MEA(DVX,DVYD.Outcome of optimization)Optimization in ADAMS shows that the optimum location of joint A is?4013.10?43.89?, when lengths of the two links are 344.07 mm and 324.04 mm. Round the lengths to 344 mm and 324 mm, rebuild the solid models of the links, reassemble the boom and simulate the several processes mentioned above as before. Results generatedare as shown in Figure 8-Figure 11.Figure 8. Driving force curve from horizontal to foundation after optimizationFigure 9. Driving force curve from horizontal to roof after optimizationFigure 10. Driving force curve from horizontal to wall after optimizationFigure 11. Driving force curve from horizontal to vertical after optimizationFrom the above graphs we know that the curve shapesof driving forces after optimization resemble the ones before optimization, and driving force of cylinder 2 decreased to the same level with cylinder 1 and 3.V.CONCLUSIONIn this paper a complete procedure of simulation and optimization of the driving forces of hydraulic cylinders for boom of truck mounted concrete pump has been presented. Firstly establish the virtual prototype by 944918combination of Pro/E and ADAMS with Mechanism/Prowhich is the exclusive interface software between the two;then simulate several processes of the boom transforming from horizontal to typical poses and generate the driving force curves; lastly optimize the structure according to the simulation results. 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