Crane Runway Beam Design for 8 wheel Crane

[ingdaniel]

Hi everyone,

I am looking information about the maximun bending moment and deflection of Crane runway for 8 wheel crane (4 wheels each side)

Regards

 

[jimstructures]

Have you seen the Spreadsheet on the AISC SteelTools website called MOVLOADS which does analysis of simple-span members with 1 to 8 moving wheel loads?

Jim

ps. There are several other spreadsheets for crane analysis at the same site.

 

[ingdaniel]

Thanks Jim,

MOVLOADS will help me a lot.

Best regards

 

[SteelPE]

I have not see the spreadsheet that jim refers to, but in the past I have taken the the 4 wheel loads and reduced the load to an equivalent 2 wheel load. I did this by adding the loads per truck and taking applying that load at the COG of the loads I combined. I believe some manufacturers use software (spreadsheets) that look at the rails in this manner.