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Subsoiler Tool with Bio-Inspired Attack Edge for Reducing Draft Force during Soil Tillage
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Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias, Campo Experimental Pabellón, Pabellon de Arteaga 20670, Aguascalientes, Mexico
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Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de San Juan del Río, San Juan del Rio 76800, Queretaro, Mexico
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División Académica de Ingeniería y Arquitectura, Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco, Cunduacan 86690, Tabasco, Mexico
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Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Chilpancingo, Chilpancingo 39090, Guerrero, Mexico
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AgriEngineering 2024, 6(3), 2678-2693; https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering6030156 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 17 May 2024
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Revised: 27 June 2024
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Accepted: 4 July 2024
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Published: 5 August 2024
Abstract
To alleviate soil compaction, subsoiling practices using subsoiler implements are commonly implemented. However, subsoiler bodies are subjected to great draft forces because they work deep in the soil. Therefore, to contribute to draft force reduction, in this work, a bio-inspired attack edge for a subsoiler body based on the internal and external contour lines of the claws of the Mexican ground squirrel (Spermophilus mexicanus) is proposed. As a first step, computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling was used to select the best bionic subsoiler (BS) according to the draft force requirements. Then, the BS was fabricated and field-evaluated, and its real draft force during tillage was contrasted with those of a curve subsoiler (CS) and a straight subsoiler (SS). The field evaluation demonstrated that the BS demands, on average, and less draft force than the CS and SS, respectively. Additionally, the BS was better at entering the soil since its mean tillage depths were and higher than those of the SS and CS geometries, respectively. Therefore, it was found that modeling the attacking edge of a subsoiler body after the Mexican ground squirrel clearly reduced the draft force during tillage.
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MDPI and ACS Style
Garibaldi-Márquez, F.; Martínez-Reyes, E.; Morales-Morales, C.; Ramos-Cantú, L.; Castro-Bello, M.; González-Lorence, A.
Subsoiler Tool with Bio-Inspired Attack Edge for Reducing Draft Force during Soil Tillage. AgriEngineering 2024, 6, 2678-2693.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering6030156
AMA Style
Garibaldi-Márquez F, Martínez-Reyes E, Morales-Morales C, Ramos-Cantú L, Castro-Bello M, González-Lorence A.
Subsoiler Tool with Bio-Inspired Attack Edge for Reducing Draft Force during Soil Tillage. AgriEngineering. 2024; 6(3):2678-2693.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering6030156
Chicago/Turabian Style
Garibaldi-Márquez, Francisco, Ernesto Martínez-Reyes, Cornelio Morales-Morales, Lenin Ramos-Cantú, Mirna Castro-Bello, and Armida González-Lorence.
2024. "Subsoiler Tool with Bio-Inspired Attack Edge for Reducing Draft Force during Soil Tillage" AgriEngineering 6, no. 3: 2678-2693.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering6030156
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