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Jun 7, 2016
Sizing of Dock Gantry Cranes within Wharf Constraints
Authors: Thomas Ward, M.ASCE [email protected], and Ibrahim Soudy, Ph.D. [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: Ports 2016
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The advent of new ultra-large container ships has created the need for larger cranes to serve them. Larger cranes necessarily put heavier loads on wharves. In many places, existing wharves cannot be easily strengthened or replaced to carry the heavier loads. Because ports seek to deploy the largest cranes possible to serve the largest ships, the question becomes: what is the biggest crane the wharf can support? The answer requires consideration of two related questions: (1) What is the relationship between crane working dimensions and wharf load? (2) What is the maximum load that the wharf can carry? The case study described in this paper answered these two questions for a wharf built in the 1980s.
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Ports 2016
Pages: 794 - 803
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© 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Jun 7, 2016
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P.E., S.E., D.PE
Senior Maritime Planner, Parsons Brinckerhoff, 1221 Broadway, Suite 800, Oakland, CA 94612. E-mail: [email protected]
P.E., S.E., P.Eng
Senior Structural Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff, 999, 3rd Ave., Seattle, WA 98104. E-mail: [email protected]
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