Combine Harvesters: Theory, Modeling, and Design

Combine Harvesters: Theory, Modeling, and Design outlines the key concepts of combine harvester process theory and provides you with a complete and thorough understanding of combine harvester processes. Utilizing a wealth of experimental data to promote validated mathematical models, this book presents the latest stochastic and deterministic modeling methods, evolutionary computational techniques, and practical applications.

Highly focused on engineering and mathematics, it incorporates the use of simulation software (including MATLAB) throughout the text and introduces a unified approach that can be used for any combine harvester functional structure. The book addresses modeling, simulation, evolutionary optimization, and combine process design. Breadth of coverage includes general technical specifications, developing machine layouts as defined by engineering calculations, and design considerations for major subassembly processes.

MATLAB is used to solve numerous examples in the book, and the code is available in the appendix.