Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Sugarcane

New design of a sugarcane shredder is being performed within a research project. This kind of equipment used to be traditionally designed on the basis experiences up to recent time. With increasing demand for the material economic utilization and reliable service, new material optimized design of shredders is required. In order to be able to perform qualified design and material optimization, service conditions has to be known. The paper is dealing with determination of sugarcane mechanical properties under dynamic loading, as the shredding process is performed at high velocities in the range of several meters per second. The mechanical properties of the sugarcane are going to be subsequently used for calculation of in operation loading on shredder components in the further steps.