Crane Designer
Size overhead crane girders and telescopic booms to EN 13001 or FEM 1.001, with a 3D shell analysis beside the 1D beam checks.
Product pages are in English.
Highlights
- Box, hexagonal, octagonal and ovaloid sections with every dimension edited on the drawing
- Live section properties, stress utilisation and tip deflection split into elastic and pad-crush parts
- Wear pad reactions, telescoping drive forces, plate slenderness class and wheel loads
- 3D shell model of the same design with one-sided wear pads and a 1D-vs-3D comparison table
- Save and reopen your inputs on your computer or in your cloud
A question it answers
What box section does an 18 m three-stage boom need to lift 2 t at 45° and still stay inside its deflection limit?What you put in
Crane type and configuration; span, or boom stage lengths and overlaps; section family (box, hexagonal, octagonal or ovaloid) with every dimension edited directly on the drawing rather than in a sidebar; wall thicknesses; steel grade; wear pad properties and running clearance; load; hoist speed; and duty classification. Inner boom stages are derived automatically from the outer section so a boom whose stages cannot pass through each other cannot be drawn.
What you get
Live section properties (area, second moments about both axes, torsion constant, section moduli, radii of gyration and mass per metre) drawn from the same wall description as the picture; bending, shear and combined stress utilisation; tip deflection split into ELASTIC and PAD-CRUSH contributions and never summed away; wear pad reactions; extension and retraction drive forces; plate slenderness class with effective width lost; wheel loads; and a text report with warnings.
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