Monorail Design
Monorail Design
(OP)
Is monorail with two trolley possible?
I haven't seen monorail with two trolleys, any pics? Any publication and reference material about structural design of the monorail with two trolleys?
I appreciate if anybody had dealt with this in past helping me out
Respectfully,
Sk
I haven't seen monorail with two trolleys, any pics? Any publication and reference material about structural design of the monorail with two trolleys?
I appreciate if anybody had dealt with this in past helping me out
Respectfully,
Sk






RE: Monorail Design
You will have multiple load cases and locations you have to design for. It will take multiple attempts to find the maximum stresses in your member. I utilized RISA 3D and their moving loads to accomplish this. If you have a simply supported monorail, it will be pretty straightforward; link them together and send them running down the runway. If you have a multi span beam, it might take multiple iterations to figure where the maximum locations of hoists are located at, especially if the hoists are rated for different load capacities.
You need to get the CMAA specifications put out by Crane Manufacturer's Association of America. That is invaluable. Use this for one or two trolleys. You should perform the calcs by hand first to make sure you know what you are doing.
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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Also, when a monorail is rated and labeled, is it based on one trolley or two trolleys?
The monorails I have seen just have the load rate on them and doesn't say that monorail is for two trolley operation or only one trolley operation?
Is linking the two trolleys and running them the worst case for a simply supported monorail?
CANPRO (Structural: Thank you for your response too. Do you know what are the two trolleys operation applications? Is there any minimum distance requirement when operating two trolleys? Any pictures of two trolley on a monorail? I googled and did not find any photos. Very hard for me to get any information.
Thank you gentlemen for your help.
StrP88
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Is the two trolley case applicable for two separate loads each individually with one trolley?
Thanks
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dik (Structural), sorry I didn't understand your response.
Thanks to all reviewer of the ad and the responders.
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Where is your project located? There is very likely some codes/standards you should be somewhat familiar with before you get too far into this.
A couple of videos for example...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YchefXKLyfY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNI9qmE2MTE