EFFICIENCY JUSTIFICATION OF THE ICE BREAKING MACHINE

Abstract

The article considers an absolutely new working body of an icebreaker for winter maintenance of roads and sidewalks, consisting of an elastic shearing working body of a shock-cutting action, which makes it possible to effectively deal with SIF and icing on roads and sidewalks.

Experimental studies were carried out, as a result of which the initial relationships between the parameters of the process were established, the regularities of the process of ice destruction under the impact of an impact were revealed, the regularities of the redistribution of energy and the subsequent transition to obtaining an empirical-theoretical dependence for determining the parameters of the WU of the shock action, taking into account the characteristics of ice to determine the mass of the striker or the rotational speed of the WU required for the destruction of an ice cover of a given thickness on the road.