Application of Virtual Prototype Technology to Analyzing the Kinetic and Dynamic Characteristics of the Base of the Remote Cylinder

Abstract

The technology for Virtual Prototyping could be adopted to take the place of Physical Prototyping so that we could innovate, test and evaluate the products, thus shortening the circle of product development, decreasing its cost and enhancing up an enterprise’s competition. Aiming at the rupture on the base of the remote cylinder during the Plow working, first the plow’s virtual prototype was established by SolidWorks in a computer ; secondly in view of the structure characteristic of the base of the remote cylinder, it was analyzed in kinematics and dynamics, at last with the help of the dynamics simulation software DDM, the plow was simulated working in the field to find out which of the two motion types operating in the field made the plow load larger and to determine the corresponding time the load was larger, supplying the potent data for the optimum design of the plow in the future.