Lifting Lug Design Manual

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'LIFTINGLUG.xls' Program Version 1.4 LIFTING LUG ANALYSIS Project Name: Project No.: Per AISC 13th Edition ASD Manual, ASME BTH-1-2008, and 'Design and Construction of Lifting Beams' by David T. Ricker Client: Prep. Lifting beams, Lifting frames and Lifting spreaders are a means of providing two or more lifting points from the hook of the lifting machine or crane spaced so as to match the position of the lifting points on the load. The difference lies in the way the forces are transmitted. A lifting beam is loaded in bending.

Introduction:

All directly welded parts to the pressure parts like lifting lugs, support lug, trunnion etc. are need to be checked for WRC 107/537. All related calculations are carried out in PV Elite once given proper inputs. In some cases, it is not possible to build such directly welded parts in PV Elite due to software constrain. For example, adding lifting lug on top dish end of vertical equipment is not possible in PV Elite. In those cases, it is mandatory to perform WRC calculations by any other means. This article will help to perform such calculations with analytical solutions followed by CodeCalc calculations.

Inputs:

Consider an equipment with top 2:1 ellipsoidal dish end with directly welded lifting lugs. All necessary input data is given below.

Solution:

To consider the maximum force acting on equipment, vessel is considered to be lifted from horizontal position to vertical. At all lifting positions forces acting on lifting and tailing lugs are calculated as given below and maximum of acting force is taken for the analysis.

Lifting lug forces:

Maximum transverse load per lug P_T= P cosθ / N

Maximum longitudinal load per lug P_L= P sinθ / N

Where, N = number of lugs

Tailing lug forces:

Maximum radial load on a lug P_R= T sinθ

Maximum longitudinal load on a lug f_L= T cosθ