Modelling, calculations and testing of single girder bridge crane and crane rails

Abstract

Bridge cranes are used for handling various types of cargo in the production halls, workshops, storage facilities, energy facilities, mills as well as in performing technological processes, assembly or disassembly of equipment. The main characteristic for these cranes are that a major girder (which in most cases is standard I profile) also represents a path on which moving movable hoist. This paper describes the procedures of using the command Frame Generator of the Software Package Autodesk Inventor 2011®, which use reduces the total time of modeling the structure which consists of standard profiles, as well as the module Frame Analysis which allows to predict the behavior of constructions under the influence of load. The end of the paper gives the experimental results for displacement and stress condition for given crane for the case of static load.