RESEARCH ON CRANE BEAM CALCULATION METHODS TO REDUCE SIMULATION COMPUTATION TIME

Abstract

Cranes are one of the most commonly used lifting equipment, requiring
periodic safety assessments to prevent potential incidents. However, current
software applications utilize traditional finite element methods, leading to
time-consuming simulation computations. There is a lack of optimized
simulation computation methods for cranes, especially for crane beam systems.
This paper introduces an alternative safety assessment method for cranes,
beyond conventional CAE analysis, which is the method of combining Finite
Element Analysis (FEA) and Boundary Element Analysis (BEA) techniques using
Altair SimSolid software to reduce the preprocessing time for simulation
models. The paper analyzes the crane beam model on two popular softwares,
NX Simcenter 3D and Altair Simsolid, to evaluate the safety of the crane,
compare the calculation time and results of the two software, thereby
providing recommendations for selecting simulation software achieve reduced
simulation computation time compared to traditional Finite Element Methods
and conventional meshing approaches.