Summary
Everything you need to know about using cranes and derricks
If you employ cranes, trust one rock-solid reference to provide tried-and-tested guidelines for selecting and working with them safely and efficiently. Nothing available covers the subject with the depth and expertise you'll find in Cranes and Derricks. The authors - Howard I.
Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, and Lawrence K. Shapiro, are the principals of an international firm that's helped define the state-of-the-art in crane and derrick engineering.
This new third edition addresses...
*the latest innovations and technologies, including new telescopic crane attachments and heavy-lift mobile crane arrangements - both telescopic and lattice boom - and newly-permitted partial outrigger extensions
*a solution to the problem of crane stability under dynamic loading
*crane support considerations, pick-and-carry work, tailing operations, site access and other site issues
*new information on safety and accident avoidance and risk management
*and much, much more
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Table of Contents
Everything you need to know about using cranes and derricks
If you employ cranes, trust one rock-solid reference to provide tried-and-tested guidelines for selecting and working with them safely and efficiently. Nothing available covers the subject with the depth and expertise you'll find in Cranes and Derricks. The authors - Howard I.
Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, and Lawrence K. Shapiro, are the principals of an international firm that's helped define the state-of-the-art in crane and derrick engineering.
This new third edition addresses...
*the latest innovations and technologies, including new telescopic crane attachments and heavy-lift mobile crane arrangements - both telescopic and lattice boom - and newly-permitted partial outrigger extensions
*a solution to the problem of crane stability under dynamic loading
*crane support considerations, pick-and-carry work, tailing operations, site access and other site issues
*new information on safety and accident avoidance and risk management
*and much, much more
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