Bearing Capacity Analysis for Statically Indeterminate Attachment System of Tower Crane Considering Single Limb Instability
The tower cranes need constantly attaching to rise in the construction of high-rise buildings. The tower body which sets attached frames combined with the four-rod-type unilateral statically indeterminate attachment system is a common form. With the attachment height and distance increasing, the attachment rods become more delicate and flexible. It is necessary to check the overall and local stability of the attachment structure. When a single limb instability happens, the reduced-order variation structure brings about the redistribution of internal forces. The anti-buckling capability depends on the structure of variation. To the condition that the single limb instability occurrs on the component which has the weakest stiffness, an exact internal force expression of the structure under composite loads has been deduced in terms of the moment equilibrium method. At the same time, the decoupling support stiffnesses of the attachment device in each direction have been obtained by the unit load method. Based on the refined calculation model, the internal forces are further analyzed under the condition that the instability rod bears the fixed Euler critical force, and the structural strength and stability capacity has been judged. The calculation result proves that the whole structure has great bearing potential after a local buckling.