UNIT FIRST

GANTRY GIRDER
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
Ques 1: Two electrically operated overhead travelling cranes are to be used in a bay of an
industrial building. Design the gantry girder for the following data:
i) Crane capacity = 200 kN
ii) Bay width = 18 m
iii) Spacing of columns = 4 m
iv) Weight of each crane and crab = 200 kN
v) Minimum approach of crane hook = 1 m
vi) Wheel base = 3.5 m
vii) Minimum distance between cranes =1.6 m
viii) Weight of trolley = 50 kN
Assume any suitable missing data.
Ques 2: Design a gantry girder to be used in an industrial building 16 m wide bay carrying on
electric overhead travelling crane for the following data:
i) Crane capacity = 150 kN
ii) Self weight of crane girder (excluding trolley) = 160 kN.
iii) Self weight of trolley, electric motor, hook, etc = 50 kN.
iv) Approximate minimum approach of hook = 1.2 m
v) Wheel base = 3.5 m
vi) C/C distance between gantry rail = 3.5 m
vii) C/C distance between columns = 8.0-m
viii) Self weight of rails = 300 N/m.
ix) Height of rail section = 75 mm.
Ques 3: A gantry girder is composed of ISMB 550 @ 1037 N/m and ISMC 300 @ 358 N/m
placed on the top of the beam with its flange down. Calculate the maximum flange and web
stresses in the girder section for the following details:
i) Effective span of the gantry girder = 8 m
ii) Effective span of the crane girder between centres of gantry rails = 18 m.
iii) Distance between the pair of carriage wheel = 3.5 m.
iv) Capacity of overhead crane = 150 kN
v) Total weight of crane girder excluding crab = 180 kN.
vi) Weight of crab = 50 kN
vii) Closest position for hook from the centre of gantry rails = 1 m
viii) Weight of gantry girder inclusive of rail = 2 kN/m.
Ques 4: Design a gantry girder, without lateral restraint along its span, to be used in an
industrial building carrying an overhead travelling crane for the following data:
i) Span of gantry girder (C/C distance between columns) = 7.5 m
ii) Crane capacity = 200 kN
iii) Self weight of crane girder (excluding trolley) = 200 kN.
iv) Self weight of trolley, electrical motor, hook, etc. = 40 kN
v) Minimum approach of crane hook = 1.2 m
vi) Distance between wheel centres = 3.5 m
vii) C/C distance between gantry rail = 15 m
viii) Self weight of rail section = 300 N/m
Take steel of grade Fe 410.