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What is a lifting plan and how many types of lifting plans are there? how to make critical lift calculation?

lifting plans for structural erection work

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Question added by Krishna Chaithanya T , Lead HSE Officer , Sterling Electro Enterprises pvt Ltd
Date Posted: 2017/12/15
Maverick B
by Maverick B , CAD Sup. Heavy Lift , Freelance

Lifting Plan - a Lifting Drawing plan and Technical adherence of the equipment's sets of instructions. 

Types of lifting plans - (Rigging Tackle Arrangement) Crane Lifting Plan, Gantry Crane Lift, Jacking, Shiplift (Ship Lifting), Skycrane (Chopper Lift), Antonov ("HeavyLift Plane" stowage/load plan), Transport Arrangement and many other forms of lifting. 

How to make a critical lift calculations - before any critical lift calculations, the procedure of lifting should first have to fall on that category ("critical lift"). 

          Common Calculations of Heavylift ; (1) % of SWL of Crane Capacity

                                                             (2) Ground Bearing Pressure

                                                             (3) Tipping of Load

                                                             (4) Load Overturning Moment

                                                             (5) Max Wind Speed

                                                             (6) Rigging Tackle Calcs

                                                             (7) Stability Calculations

                                                             (8) Tidal Currents

                                                             (9) Ballasting Calculations

                                                             (10) and a lot of others....

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