Bridge Girder Design Of an EOT Crane Structure—A CAD Approach

Abstract

Crane structure, which is made up of bridge girder and end truck, contributes heavily to the dead weight of the whole crane. Most of the materials handling equipment manufacturing industries are manufacturing equipment using conventional design procedure, which gives heavy weight of crane structure and other parts. Moreover, for the different capacities of EOT crane structure, more time is required for the design and analysis of the structure and other parts. In this paper problem of reducing the weight of box-girder at the same time increasing the productivity and to improve quality of product as required by the Indian Standard is tackled by preparing a program in Visual Basic 6.0.