Title: Structural fatigue assessment and management of large-scale port logistics equipments

Authors: Yuan Liu, Weijian Mi, Huiqiang Zheng

Addresses: Mechanical Engineering School, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, PR China. ' Logistics Engineering School, Shanghai Maritime University, 1550 Pudong Avenue, Shanghai 200135, PR China. ' Mechanical Engineering School, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, PR China

Abstract: With the advances of port enterprises, much intensive research has been gradually involved in the structural fatigue assessment and management of port logistics equipments. However, relevant work on large-scale port logistics equipments is still lacking due to their complex structures. In addition, a single technique could not effectively deal with complicated structures. As such, a hybrid fatigue assessment method was investigated using the S-N curve and fracture mechanics methods for crack formation and propagation life estimations, respectively. Consequently, the fatigue assessment of a gantry crane was used as an example to illustrate the practicality and efficiency of this approach.

Keywords: large-scale port logistics equipment; fatigue assessment; S-N curve; fracture mechanics; crack formation; crack propagation life; gantry cranes; structural safety assessment.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.021383

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, 2008 Vol.32 No.4, pp.282 - 289

Published online: 21 Nov 2008 *

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