Dynamic Design Analysis of Construction Machinery

This paper illustrates the activity of. dynamic design analysis of construction machinery in Komatsu. The purpose of this activity is reduction of the development cost and time for a new product by using system dynamic simulation techniques before establishing a prototype. The emphasis is on the introduction of a versatile computer program system developed for system simulation and on its application to construction machinery. Furthermore, the applicability of a new technique proposed in this paper to analyze non-linear phenomena is discussed. The aim of this discussion is to improve the accuracy of system simulation.