Effect of Some Dozer Design Parameters on Dozer Productivity

Abstract

In this paper, a study for the effect of design parameters of dozers on their productivity is done by using the productivity-related data given in manuals of three different tracked dozer brands. The major design parameters that have been chosen in the study are the dozer weight, the dozer blade type and blade capacity and they approximately have the same power to weight ratio. Empirical equations for calculating the productivity for each brand have also been developed by using data-fit program. Finally, it has been concluded that the blade capacity stands as the most significant parameter as the dozer productivity increases by sixty percent in average whenever the blade capacity increases by twenty five percent.