Anti-Seismic Device Design for Container Crane and its Elastic-Plastic Time History Analysis

Abstract

Quayside container crane is a kind of large dimension steel structure, which is the major equipment used for lifting container at modern ports. With the aim to ensure the safety and reliability of the crane under seismic loads, an anti-seismic device is designed. To validate the efficiency and reliability of the anti-seismic device, elastic-plastic time history analysis under rare seismic intensity is carried out. And the results of elastic-plastic time history analysis when the crane installed anti-seismic device and uninstalled the device are compared.

Keywords

• quayside container crane
• time history analysis
• energy design method
• anti-seismic device