Analysis and Optimization of End Carriage Wheel Design of E.O.T. Crane In Rail Structural Mill
Keywords:
Rail and Structural Mill (RSM), E.O.T.(Electric Over Head Travelling) Cranes, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP)Abstract
It has found that during the working of Electric
Overhead Travelling (E.O.T) Crane , the end carriage
wheel are getting broken frequently which is used for
handling and transporting the rails and other materials.
The rail size of thirteen and twenty six meters are
manufactured in this plant and these EOT cranes are used
to carry to throughout the shop. Due to varying loads
cracks developed on end carriage wheel and which
results in frequently broken of wheels. Generally in BSP
by doing small repairing like grooving in cracks and
welding and covering through lap plates are basically
done to make these wheel in reuse. These measures were
temporary & not succeeded in giving a permanent
solution. Due to overloaded wheel get misaligned and
running problems occurred because wheel is not in exact
rail center. Wheel consumption increased due to
misaligned running and crane down time increased and
which results in effect on production and maintenance
process. The main future scope of this paper is to design,
analyze and optimize the design of wheel which is used on
end carriage of E.O.T crane in Rail & Structural Mill of
BSP.
