Box Design Selection for Portable Minapadi Based on Hydrostatic and Thermal Loading Simulation

Abstract

Land conversion has led to the encouragement of urban farming, which is practiced on a
small area of land. The innovation of Nonpowered Automatic Fertigator that has been used
to support urban farming continues to be developed, especially for the portable paddy-fish
integrated farming model. Because of this, a study of supporting equipment is needed, one
of which is a good cribs design. Tests were carried out on the materials that make up the
cribs to determine the mechanical properties of the material in the form of Young’s modulus
where from ten test objects the average elastic modulus was obtained at 15582.19 MPa. The
mechanical properties obtained are entered into a computer simulator to be applied to the
simulation of the cribs. There are two cribs designs that were tested by being loaded with
hydrostatic loads and thermal loads. The results of the simulation showed that the first cribs
was rated better than the second cribs with a smaller maximum total deformation indicator
than the second cribs design under extreme hydrostatic loading conditions.