Análise do desempenho de um protótipo de equipamento para a correção do micro-relevo do solo.

Abstract

To test an agricultural machine, in fundament, is the gathering of information with the purpose of taking a decision. It is widely accepted that technological inventions from implicit knowledge in modern agricultural machinery generated many benefits to manufacturers, farmers and the society in general. With this aim, the prototype of a soil micro-relief correction machine was evaluated, in order to assess its real ability on performing the intended design function. In this work, two treatments were made, with four passages each. In those plots, land bumpiness was examined before and after the equipment usage. According to the measurements, the test results were considered as inadequate for the original machine purpose. From those, suggestions were given to the manufacturer in order to contribute for improvements in machine specifications or even to a newly redesigned, better equipment, taking in mind the need of compliance with operational and safety specifications to really assure its quality.