Proposal of a system to perform dynamic tests of stability on agricultural machines

The tests that are normally proposed to characterize the stability of agricultural machines suffer from evident limitations, first of all being limited to static conditions only, thus neglecting the presence of the centrifugal force or not considering at all the load transfers that can occur in real situations. The critical analysis of actual tests and test-facilities has been therefore the starting point for a conceptual-design process aimed at defining an innovative dynamic-stability test solution, named the tiltable and angleable plaftorm. This facility is wide enough to let vehicle travel on it and has two half-platforms that can assume different inclinations, hence resulting to be aligned or forming an angle. It will be installed within the “Agroforestry Innovation Laboratory” of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. The different tests that can be performed with this facility will simulate better the real conditions that a vehicle in motion undergoes, thus helping the analysts to study new active safety devices.