International Research Journal of Education and Technology

 An excavator bucket is a specialized container attached to a machine as compared to a bucket adapted for manual use by a human being excavator bucket is the most used heavy tool because it can handle other heavy tool such as sloping and dumptruck loading. The analysis of excavator bucket lugs is carried over two steel alloy materials such SM50A (Steel Alloy) and SCNCr2B. The main aim of this project work is designing bucket excavator using Catia V5 software and doing analysis with ANSYS R14.5 software using finite element analysis (FEA) method. The project work emphasize about the development that is done in the tip of excavator bucket teeth based on the calculation and analysis.This methods gives the force calculation and further it is used for the carrying out the fatigue analysis to calculate fatigue life of bucket and its failure. Further the work regarding the optimization of modified bucket to give maximum fatigue life compared with existing bucket model for the digging at the desired force conditions.

Key Words:  Excavator bucket, Fea analysis, Catia V5