ANGLE OF SHREDDING

Another important parameter to calculate is the angle of shredding which gives information about the
direction of the force -vector applied by the blades on the waste. In order to do this, the cutter diameter
was considered, which was set equal to 500 mm that is the value given by the sum of gears diameter and
the height of the chosen blades for this aim. To this purpose a waste with rectangular section was used.

First of all we divided the lenght of minor base of hopper to:

l−b
l=b +2 a a=
2

where l is the minor base and b the lenght of the intersection area.

x=r −( a+b )=r −( l−a ) =r−l+ a

l−b l+ b
x=r −l+ =r −( )
2 2

θ=cos−1 ( xr )
l+b
θ=cos−1 1−( ( )) 2r

α =180 °−θ

φ=α −90 °

l+b
φ=90 °−cos−1 1−
( 2r ))
(
l+ b
F T =F × cosφ=F × sinθ=F ×sin[cos ¿ ¿−1 1− ( ( )) 2r
]¿

F T =F × √ 1−θ2

l+b
F a=F × cosθ=F ×cos [cos ¿ ¿−1 1−
( 2 r ))]¿
(
F a=F × θ