Unsafe hoisting behaviors are the fuse of tower crane overturning safety accident. However,
the hoisting operation has a certain degree of randomness and invisibility, and it is …

Construction of high-rise buildings, large-scale apartment blocks, or construction in urban
areas (especially busy downtowns) demands increasingly greater use of tower cranes …

In this paper are presented results of tests and analyses of complex dynamic loads carried
out on the bucket-wheel excavator SchRs 650/5× 24 Krupp, as well as assessment of …

The usage of crane in the construction industry is widespread and very important regardless
of the project size. In tall building construction, the efficiency of the tower crane is the …

This study examines crane-related current legislation in South Korea, extracting existing
relevant safety standards, analyzing problems within the extracted safety standards, and …

This paper describes a professional verification of crane track beams, determination of
residual durability of selected beams and suggestion of necessary measures with regard to …

The article presents a method for assessing the technical condition of overhead crane
equipment. Particular emphasis was put on equipment designed to work in conditions that …

We analyze the specific features of evaluation of the in-service degradation of rolled steel
sheets of the reloading equipment. It is shown that impact toughness, as an indicator of …

Safety measures for tower cranes are extremely important among the seismic
countermeasures at high-rise building construction sites. The collapse of a tower crane from …

The boom section of a hydraulic excavator (23 m 3 capacity) suffered a catastrophic failure
after nearby 40,000 h of operation at a coal mine comprising more than three-quarters of the …