Product Research

These drawings illustrate some of the concept research and decisions made during development of a new crane model.

New Concept Development for MCT 2568

All booms are a half circle shape from the middle to the bottom and rectangular from the middle to the top. This type of design increases strength compared to an only rectangular or square profile.
"Weldox_900" high strength steel is specified. This is a high strength steel material, extremely useful in weight sensitive applications.
This material has a yield strength of about 900 MPa, double the strength of ASTM A 572 Gr. 50 or ASTM A 656 Gr. 70; these grades were used previously.
All other gusset mounting at the tip and main boom oscillating region remain the same as the previous iteration.
Most strength gains are because of optimization for uniform stress distribution from FEM software. The initial concept design phase is extremely important, and incurs significant investment in both time and money.