Software Development for Designing and Analysis of Major Components of EOT Crane

Abstract

Material handling equipments are an eminent part of the human life. Modern technological era cannot be imagined without various material handling equipments. Cranes are amongst one of the material handling equipment which nds wide appli- cations in di erent elds of engineering. The present work is an e ort to develop software for carrying out automated design and analysis of major parts of EOT crane using Visual Basic 6 as platform.The de- velopment of software has been done in two phases, rst which is the development of the automated design software while the second is to perform the detailed design analysis of the major components of EOT crane. For the development of the user in- terface Visual Basic 6.0 has been used. The automated FEA of the components have been carried out by developing interface between the software and Finite Element Analysis package ANSYS 11 using Ansys parametric development language (APDL). This method speeds up design and reliability.