Abstract:As a piece of key mechanical equipment in agriculture and construction, the performance improvement of loaders is of great significance. The current study mainly focused on the loading and unloading performance of loaders under a given static load, without considering the interaction between the material system, the mechanical system, and the hydraulic system in the excavation process. The loading and unloading performance of the loader was mainly investigated by the fluid simulation and rigid?diffusive coupling methods, which were not able to reflect the real?time interaction between the material system, the mechanical system, and the hydraulic system in the loading and unloading process. For this reason, a loading and unloading performance model of the working device of the widely used valve?controlled loader was constructed based on the machine?liquid?bulk multi?coupling method, on this basis, the loading and unloading performance evolution law of the loader under different composite actions was investigated. The results showed that the lifting hydraulic cylinder rodless chamber pressure was about 8 MPa, the bucket hydraulic cylinder rodless chamber pressure was about 4 MPa, and the bucket hydraulic cylinder rodless chamber pressure was more stable than the lifting hydraulic cylinder rodless chamber pressure under steady state operation. When the opening degree of both the lift hydraulic valve and the bucket hydraulic valve was 62.5%, the full bucket rate of the loader reached 91.48%, and the lift action had obvious influence on the digging volume of the loader. The peak power of the hydraulic pump under the variable lifting hydraulic valve opening condition was higher than that under the variable dumping bucket hydraulic valve opening condition, and the material disturbance velocity was first stabilised and then decreased with the increase of lifting hydraulic valve opening, and increased and then decreased with the increase of dumping bucket hydraulic valve opening. The research findings may serve as a reference for the digital design of loaders.