×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

calculating tractor power

calculating tractor power

calculating tractor power

(OP)
i will like to calculate from first principle, how find the power required by a tractol pull a trailer of 8 tonnes up an inclined plane of 30 degress. please help me.

how to we rate a screw-conveyor
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

RE: calculating tractor power

contact the Tractor testing lab @ University of Nebraska, they have tested all tractores sold in hte us for decades and have all sorts of info availibel
www.tractortestlab.unl.edu/

SBI
Central Ne.,USA

RE: calculating tractor power

Well, sounds like what you really need to know is how much power and how much drawbar pull is required for your trailer.

Do you need an estimate or an accurate number? Accurate number is easy, setup a test apparatus to measure drawbar pull and pick the speed which you desire to go up the hill.

power = force x speed with the units changed up accordingly.

What surface are you pulling on?  Driving up a plowed field takes much more power than paved road, the rougher or softer the terrain the more tire mechanics and soil mechanics matter.

RE: calculating tractor power

DITTO...  we covered this in our Power and Machinery class at OSU.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members! Already a Member? Login



News


Close Box

Join Eng-Tips® Today!

Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical engineering professional community.
It's easy to join and it's free.

Here's Why Members Love Eng-Tips Forums:

Register now while it's still free!

Already a member? Close this window and log in.

Join Us             Close