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Straddle Carrier Wheel Loads During Braking

This document discusses the wheel loads of a straddle carrier during braking. It calculates the static wheel load of 24.57 kips based on the weight of the equipment and a critical container. It then adjusts the wheel loads to account for braking, with outer wheels experiencing a 50% increase/decrease and inner wheels a 21.4% increase/decrease. These adjusted loads are converted to equivalent passes of the highest load of 36.9 kips. The total equivalent passes is calculated to be 1.56 times the highest load. This means the pavement must be designed for 1.5 million passes of 36.9 kips. Using this equivalent single load and number of passes, the required base thickness is determined

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Straddle Carrier Wheel Loads During Braking

This document discusses the wheel loads of a straddle carrier during braking. It calculates the static wheel load of 24.57 kips based on the weight of the equipment and a critical container. It then adjusts the wheel loads to account for braking, with outer wheels experiencing a 50% increase/decrease and inner wheels a 21.4% increase/decrease. These adjusted loads are converted to equivalent passes of the highest load of 36.9 kips. The total equivalent passes is calculated to be 1.56 times the highest load. This means the pavement must be designed for 1.5 million passes of 36.9 kips. Using this equivalent single load and number of passes, the required base thickness is determined

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Straddle Carrier Wheel Loads During Braking

Total number of wheels on equipment (8)


Wheel load of unladen equipment = 124/8=15.5 kips (56,310/8 = 7,039 kg)
Weight of critical container = 48.4 kips (22,000 kg), see Chapter 1
fd = Dynamic factor for braking - ±50% for extreme wheels, see next paragraph for inner wheels

Static wheel load = 15.5 + 48.4 = 21.55 kips (7,039 + 22,000 = 9789 kg = 97.9 kN)
8 8
The proximity of the wheel loads is now considered to assess their stress interaction using the equation
given in Chapter 1 to calculate the effective depth.
35000
Effective Depth 300. 3 = 2664 mm (8.73ft)
5 x 10
From Table 9, the proximity factor can be interpolated to be 1.14. Therefore, the Effective Static Wheel
Load is 21.55 x 1.14 = 24.57 kips (97.9 x 1.14 = 111.6 kN). Consider the worse loading case of braking
and apply the appropriate dynamic factor of ± 50% to the wheels at the extreme front and rear, applying the
increase in load to the front wheels and the decrease to the rear wheels.
The inner wheel loads need to be similarly adjusted but using a factor lower than ±50% determined by

meters) from the center of the vehicle and each inner wheel is 6 ft (1.8 m) from the center. Therefore, the
lower braking factor to be applied to the inner wheels is ± 21.4% i.e. (± 50% x 6/14). We now need to
express the four load values which will pass over one spot into an equivalent number of passes of the
highest wheel load (36.9 kips or 167.7 kN) as follows. The Damaging Effect equation in Chapter 1 is
applied to each wheel load in turn:
Front wheel is equivalent to one pass of a load of 36.9 kips (167.7 kN)
Second wheel is equivalent to (29.8/36.9)3.75 i.e. 0.45 equivalent passes of the front wheel load.
Third wheel is equivalent to (19.3/36.9) 3.75 i.e. 0.09 equivalent passes of the front wheel load.
Fourth wheel is equivalent to (12.3/36.9) 3.75 i.e. 0.02 equivalent passes of the front wheel load.
All of the repetitions are converted to an equivalent number of repetitions of the heaviest wheel so that the
Equivalent Single Load used in the design charts is derived from the heaviest wheel load. It would be

Therefore, each time the straddle carrier passes over one spot, it applies the equivalent of
(1+0.45+0.09+0.02) = 1.56 repetitions of the front wheel load of 36.9 kips (167.7 kN). This means that the
pavement needs to be designed to accommodate 1.5 million passes (i.e. 1.56 x 960,000) of a load of 36.9
kips (167.7 kN). The base thickness design chart can now be used as follows:
on the vertical axis, the Equivalent Single Load is 36.9 kips (167.7 kN)
the appropriate curve is the one corresponding to 1.5 million passes
the 1,400 psi (10 MPa) CTB thickness corresponding to the above which is read from the horizontal
axis on the design chart is 10.5 in (260 mm).

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