Shipping loads on skid mounted equipment
Shipping loads on skid mounted equipment
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I've done a bit of searching on this subject but I can't seem to find anything definitive. I suppose that's because there are so many variables. I want to come up with some reasonable shipping accelerations for skid mounted equipment shipped over the road on a trailer pulled by a semi. I'm thinking of using the following:
Longitudinal: 1.2g
Transverse: 0.55g
Vertical: +-0.35g
I would consider vertical plus longitudinal and vertical plus transverse.
Does anyone know if there are any regulations in the U.S. actually dictating what the accelerations should be? If not, any ideas on values to use? Not trying to mitigate every circumstance like a collision. Just provide reasonable numbers that will provide acceptable level of confidence that the equipment will get to the site in one piece.
Longitudinal: 1.2g
Transverse: 0.55g
Vertical: +-0.35g
I would consider vertical plus longitudinal and vertical plus transverse.
Does anyone know if there are any regulations in the U.S. actually dictating what the accelerations should be? If not, any ideas on values to use? Not trying to mitigate every circumstance like a collision. Just provide reasonable numbers that will provide acceptable level of confidence that the equipment will get to the site in one piece.






RE: Shipping loads on skid mounted equipment
Professional and Structural Engineer (ME, NH, MA)
American Concrete Industries
www.americanconcrete.com
RE: Shipping loads on skid mounted equipment
Data collected from the bed of a pickup might be representative of the accelerations on a skid whose weight is a tiny fraction of a truck's capacity.
This may be useful:
https://www.containerhandbuch.de/chb_e/stra/index....
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Shipping loads on skid mounted equipment
For skidded stuff, though, the answer is generally to make it incredibly resilient. So this design force is normally just a check that easily passes rather than something I'll design down to.