Cranes Design, Practice, and Maintenance
Cranes Design, Practice, and Maintenance looks at all types of cranes and deals with container and grab unloader cranes in some detail. The objective has been to give a general overview of this very wide subject and then to provide positive, practical guidance to anyone involved in the design, specification, selection, or operation and maintenance of cranes.
A crane is often a very large and complex piece of equipment and this book analyses many of the individual components and design features that can be found on a typical crane. Components such as brakes, wire ropes, electrical drive systems, automatic sensors, wheels, rails, buffers, cable reels, festoons, hoppers, overload preventers, and anticollision systems are discussed in some detail along with advantages and disadvantages of various component types. This book also shows how to correctly ‘size’ and calculate a number of these components. Furthermore, various design features and preferred solutions are discussed such as the effect of wind on cranes, design standards, welding methods, structural design and fatigue calculations and, finally, maintenance.
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Cranes Design, Practice, and Maintenance content
- Foreword
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- Foreword to second edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Wire ropes
- Drives; calculating motor powers
- Brakes
- Standards
- Sagging and slapping of the wire ropes; rock and roll of the spreader; machinery trolleys versus wire rope trolleys; twin-lift;
- positioning; automatic equipment identification (AEI)
- Construction and calculation methods on strength and fatigue
- Wheels and tracks
- Miscellaneous
- Maintenance
- Artwork sources
- Index
The author aims to provide understanding of the construction, components, and calculations required for the safe and efficient operation and designs of cranes.These complicated and expensive devices deserve specialist attention and require a detailed understanding of their workings. Directors, consultants, technicians, engineers, project managers, maintenance contractors, and those involved in the design of cranes will find useful material here.
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