Crane Tracks

ID (subject identifier)

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cranetracks

GRAMMAR

Subject name

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Crane Rail / Crane Rails/ Crane Tracks

GRAMMAR

Subject type

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Infrastructure / Linear / Position

GRAMMAR

Also known as

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crane tracks, crane running rails, gantry rails, crane runway

TIC Description

Definition

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A crane track is a linear infrastructure element consisting of two or more or more parallel running rails installed to support the motion (gantry) of cranes such as STS, RMGs, or ASCs within a terminal usually in dedicated areas.

Further detail

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The setup is similar to that of https://tic40.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=REV&title=Train%20Tracks. In most cases, crane rails can be treated similarly as railway rails. While railway rails have national standards that define a fixed gauge for the steel rails, the variety of crane rail types and gauges requires a crane-specific definition.
Please note that a big gauge in curved terminals can lead to a very different geometry and arc lengths of each single crane rail.
Please note that some terminals may have curved crane rails allowing STS cranes to gantry travel and operate on adjacent berths. With curved rails, different geometry and arc lengths of each single crane rail are used. Similarly such curved rails can be used for RMG / ASC in a railyard.
Therefore, we propose that for larger crane structures, e.g., RMGs spanning a whole railyard, the crane rails should be modeled as separate entities.

TIC Description

Required information

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TIC Description

SUBJECT

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Crane, Terminal, Yard

CONCEPT

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Location-Coordinate, Position, Availability

Related standards

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ISO 12488-1 (Cranes – Tolerances for tracks); DIN 536 (Crane rail profiles); EN 1991-3 (Actions on structures – cranes); FEM 9.831 (Crane runway design);

TIC Description

Related TIC 4.0 definitions

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https://tic40.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/createpage.action?spaceKey=REV&title=Train%20Tracks

Example

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`crane_rail

Example in the context of the grammar

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“Crane STS-03 operates on crane_rail quay_west_left and crane_rail quay_west_right.” “RMG-05 is positioned at 125.4 m along crane_rail yard5_right.”

Link to one or more operational processes

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Crane travel positioning, hoisting operations, maintenance alignment checks, crane parking, and calibration of gantry alignment systems.

Search tags

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crane, crane rails, gauge, alignment, gantry, STS, RMG, ASC, rail, tolerance, alignment, track, geometry

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