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Dynamics and Control of Ship-Mounted Cranes

VSAS Integration Center, General Motors Corporation, MC 480-305-200, 6440 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48090-9000, USA

Ali H. Nayfeh

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, MC 0219, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Dean T. Mook

Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, MC 0219, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

When deep water ports are not accessible, cargo is transferred from/to larger ships to/from smaller ships offshore. A typical arrangement is to place three ships side by side. In the middle is a ship with cranes. Along one side of the crane ship is the large container ship, and along the other side is the small ship or lighter, which shuttles back and forth between the ships and shore. The sea state is a very important factor in this operation. The sea-excited motion of the crane ship can excite large pendulations of the containers while they are suspended by the cables of the cranes. The large motions can be due to either large excitation amplitudes or small excitation amplitudes near resonant conditions. In this study, the cable-suspended load is modeled as an elastic spherical pendulum. The method of multiple scales is used to derive four nonlinear ordinary- differential equations that describe the amplitudes and phases of the excited modes. These equations are used to investigate instabilities and provide information for controlling the pendulations. The results show that a parametric excitation at twice the natural frequency leads to a sudden jump in the response as the cable is unreeled. Introducing a harmonic change in the cable length at the same frequency as the excitation can suppress this dynamic instability and result in a smooth response. The analytical results are verified by numerical simulations of the original full nonlinear equations.

Key Words: Boom cranes • pendulum • parametric resonance

Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol. 7, No. 6, 891-904 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/107754630100700607


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