initial idea

Crane initial idea:

The design of this crane has been inspired by portable cranes and other application which features a base that fills with water or sand for stability.

The base is meant to be containers that could be filled with water or sand depending on availability.

The tier on each side are also meant to be containers where they can be filled depending on how much wait needed to lift the object.

Workshop Cranes

Workshop Cranes There are several workshop cranes types where each type has a little differences in its characteristics, however they all share the same general principals.

Workshop cranes general advantages:

1. It’s a portable crane

2. Reliable for several industrial applications

3. Small area for storage

4. Easy to move around

5. It operate manually

6. Made of heavy-duty materials

7. One person to operate

Workshop cranes general disadvantages:

1. Cannot be lifted by one person

2. Doesn’t fit easily in a 4*4 vehicle

3. Cannot be disassembled and re-assembled easily

Gantry Cranes

Gantry Cranes

Gantry crane is used in most demanding environments where very heavy equipment and machines have to be lifted.

Gantry cranes general advantages:

1. It’s a portable crane

2. Lift very heavy equipment

3. Easy to move around

4. It operate manually

5. Made of heavy duty materials

Gantry crane general disadvantages:

1. Cannot be lifted by one or two persons

2. Doesn’t fit in a 4*4 vehicle

3. Cannot be disassembled and re-assembled easily

Loader Cranes

Loader Cranes

The Loader Crane is a fixed crane in the back of a truck. Since the carne is fixed, I would eliminate this type of crane considering that we need a portable carne that can be fit into a 4*4 vehicle. However, we could take some ideas of the crane structure itself and use it in our crane design.

Research part 2

Research Part 1

Different crane types:

From this research it can be seen that we need to design a crane that has the manouvrebility and compactness of an A-frame pulley crane and the load moving capabilities of a Gantry Crane.

Brain storm

19/3/10 Minutes

Attendees

Mohammed Altubayieb
Thomas Anderson
James Baddeley
Richard Bay

Tasks Achieved

• Initial Brainstorming complete. Research on different types of crane, counterbalancing methods and movement methods.
• Individual ideas discussed.
• Evaluated different designs.

Tasks to be completed by 22/3/10

• Individual ideas and diagrams to be uploaded on blog by team members.
• Research page to be uploaded.
• Fully design chosen idea

Next meeting at 5PM 22/3/10

Tower Crane ( Base Design )

This is an initial idea for the tower crane base. It consists of several containers that could be filled with any liquid depending on availability. Each container has a volume of 5 gallons, which will give us almost 22.5 kilograms (the weight of each container can various depending on the liquid used).

If we chose the tower crane for our project, we might consider these main parts to redesign.

I have some initial designs ideas of the tower crane BASE that I will upload this week.

First Meeting 8.3.10

Position allocation:

Project Manager: Peter Armstrong armstpwa@aston.ac.uk
Finance Officer: James Baddeley baddeljc@aston.ac.uk
Chief Designer: Thomas Anderson andersot@aston.ac.uk
Materials Specialist: Richard Bay bayrh@aston.ac.uk
Stress Analyst: Mohammed Altubayieb altubaym.ac.uk