The influence of a quay crane sea transportation on its further exploitation
Abstract
For the last decades, fully erected container cranes have been delivered to a customer site by ships. On one hand, using this method of transportation is very attractive due to its cost and time savings. However, on the other hand, being exposed to cycling loads from the ship motions during the sea voyage, the crane structure accumulates fatigue damage. Using the accumulated fatigue damage parameter, the crane transportation could be associated with the amount of the working cycles the crane could have worked out during its normal operating at the customer site. In the presenting paper the research for the real case of a new crane voyage from China to Ukraine has been done.
First published online 12 April 2017
Keyword : crane sea transportation, fatigue damage accumulation, ship motion accelerations, finite element analysis, container crane, ship-to-shore (STS) crane
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