CN105113803A - High-altitude sliding hoisting device of corridor truss of mountain and implementing method of high-altitude sliding hoisting device - Google Patents
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The invention discloses a high-altitude sliding hoisting device of a corridor truss of a mountain and an implementing method of the high-altitude sliding hoisting device. The problem that a crane hoisting mode or a climbing pole hoisting mode cannot be used in a cliffy mountain in the prior art is solved. The high-altitude sliding hoisting device of the corridor truss of the mountain comprises supports, a sliding frame, a sliding rope and a traction mechanism; the supports are arranged at two ends of a mounting platform; the sliding frame is arranged on the top of the mounting platform and consists of upright columns; the sliding rope and the traction mechanism are used with the sliding frame; a crossbeam is arranged on tops of each two upright columns at the same end; rib plates with through holes are arranged on each crossbeam and are close to positions where the crossbeam is connected with the corresponding upright columns; the sliding rope penetrates in the rib plates on the tops of two ends of the sliding frame; two tips of the sliding rope are anchored to the support; and the corridor truss is positioned in the sliding frame, is dragged by the traction mechanism, and moves on the sliding rope through a movable pulley mounted on the sliding rope. By the high-altitude sliding hoisting device, technology quality of manufacturing assembly and hoisting of the corridor truss is ensured, construction safety and precision are ensured, construction cost is reduced greatly, and construction period is shortened.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to vestibule steel structure truss and handling field is installed, specifically, relate to a kind of mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus and its implementation.
Background technology
The conveying of cement industry production Raw is one important operation, and most of raw limestone minery and cement clinker production line are due to the difference of respective operating condition and residing region terrain, raw limestone need install induction system by feedstock transportation to material storage yard by built on stilts gallery and tunnel.In prior art, truss installa-tion handling equipment needed thereby huge structure, equipment are complicated, and are not suitable for the high-altitude gallery installation of the complicated landform in mountain area, actually practice inconvenience, and efficiency is low, easy schedule delays.
Summary of the invention
The object of the invention is to overcome above-mentioned defect, provide a kind of structure simple, realize convenient, construction area can be reduced, minimize transport costs, mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus that efficiency of construction is high.
To achieve these goals, the technical solution used in the present invention is as follows:
A kind of mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, comprises the support being installed on mounting platform two ends, is arranged at mounting platform top and the slippage framework be made up of column, with described slippage framework with the use of slip rope, and haulage gear; At two described column tops with end, crossbeam is installed, junction near itself and described column on described crossbeam is provided with the gusset with through hole, described slip rope passes the gusset at top, described slippage framework two ends and two ends is anchored on described support, gallery truss is positioned at described slippage framework and is drawn by described haulage gear, is moved on described slip rope by the movable pulley be arranged on described slip rope.
Further, described haulage gear comprises the hoist engine be arranged on one of them support, and is arranged on the fixed pulley on another support, is connected on gallery truss after described fixed pulley walked around by the drag cable of described hoist engine.
Further, described fixed pulley is arranged between two parties, to make the drag cable of described hoist engine consistent with the center line of gallery truss.
Further, the lower edge termination, both sides of described gallery truss is provided with hoist cable, the drag cable of described hoist engine is moved by described hoist cable traction gallery truss.
Further, some support posts are also provided with in described mounting platform bottom.
Further, described support post is undertaken drawing anchor by looking at wind rope.
Further, on described mounting platform top, a railing post is set every three meters.
Further, described slippage framework is also provided with for the safety rope in connection construction personnel.
Further, described gallery truss is connected with described movable pulley by jack cucurbit.
The implementation method of above-mentioned a kind of mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, comprises the following steps:
(1) in the step of mounting platform two ends setting support;
(2) step of slippage framework is built at mounting platform top by column;
(3) at the welded top gusset of slippage framework, by slip rope through gusset and the step be anchored on support is drawn at two ends along glide direction;
(4) step of haulage gear is installed on support;
(5) step of assembled gallery truss on mounting platform;
(6) gallery truss sections is become some truss elements;
(7) by the step that truss element is connected with the movable pulley on slip rope by jack cucurbit;
(8) step of haulage gear truss frame for connecting unit;
(9) hand fit's haulage gear carries out truss element transitional care, until truss element slides onto the step of installation site;
(10) all truss elements are slid onto installation site by repeated execution of steps (7) ~ (9);
(11) carry out docking assembling after truss element is temporary fixed and form complete gallery truss;
(12) gallery truss is aimed at pre-embedded bolt, fixing step is installed.
Design principle of the present invention: install principle, in conjunction with slip rope structure, haulage gear, security system in actual design sliding system according to the sliding method in rack mounting method.The main supporting member of suspended-cable structure is the suspension cable of tension, and in slipping, the deadweight of gallery truss and horizontal drag force are born primarily of suspension cable and slippage framework; Wherein, the deadweight of the main load truss of suspension cable, temporary support door frame mainly resists horizontal drag force.For this reason, the present invention, by reducing the sag of suspension cable, strengthens the rigidity of slippage framework, improves the pulling force of cable wire and the stability of slippage framework.Haulage gear is mainly made up of hoist engine, changes power direction by fixed pulley, and the slippage of traction truss is in place.Because gallery truss adopts cases of otherwise standard design, its span, weight are all unequal.The uncertain factor of slippage installation process risk is more, the control of security system adopts field measurement actual quantities, deformation monitoring is carried out to slippage installation process, and in real time deformation data and empirical data are analyzed, the Deformation control of effective guarantee directory system, temporary support door frame, in value range, guarantees construction safety.
Compared with prior art, the present invention has following beneficial effect:
(1) the present invention is directed to the feature of mountain area induction system gallery steel truss, existing conveying gallery platform is utilized to complete, and adopt " truss fabrication is installed and advanced by Pin " technical measures Fast Installation steel truss technology, can construction area be reduced, save transport expense.
(2) the present invention is directed to mountain area complicated landform, transporting material, component road conditions, duration of a project progress situation, scientific and reasonable division construction section, adopt segmentation organizing construction simultaneously, thus effectively shorten the duration.
(3) the present invention adopts high-altitude to make assembling, air translation Hoisting Construction Technology, reduce the assembling of gallery truss fabrication, Hoisting Construction Technology difficulty, solve the especially big difficult problem that cannot use the lifting mode such as crane and pole-climbing in cliffy mountain, ensure that the technical quality of the assembling of gallery truss fabrication and lifting, ensure that construction safety and precision, significantly reduce construction cost, shorten the duration.
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Fig. 1 is structural representation of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is sectional schematic diagram of the present invention.
Reference numeral title corresponding in accompanying drawing is as follows:
1-column, 2-crossbeam, 3-through hole, 4-gusset, 5-support, 6-slip rope, 7-hoist engine, 8-fixed pulley, 9-support post, 10-lookes at wind rope, 11-jack cucurbit, 12-gallery truss.
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Below in conjunction with drawings and Examples, the invention will be further described, and embodiments of the present invention include but not limited to the following example.
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As shown in Figure 1, 2, present embodiments provide a kind of mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, in order to solve the difficult problem that cannot use the lifting mode such as crane and pole-climbing in cliffy mountain.This hanging apparatus mainly comprises support, slippage framework, slip rope and haulage gear.Support is four column holder posts, is arranged on the two ends of mounting platform.
Slippage framework is made up of column, its structure is cuboid framework or square framework, in the present embodiment, the each 2 meters long columns of slippage framework Φ 219 steel pipe manufacturing 6 are formed, specifically, continuous three across each anchoring two in both sides, concrete support top root post, column spacing is greater than gallery truss two string width, column welded top has crossbeam, the material of crossbeam is not particularly limited, but higher intensity should be had, crossbeam two ends are apart from column 100mm place welding gusset, gusset offers the through hole passed for slip rope, during installation, slip rope is through the gusset at top, slippage framework two ends, slip rope two ends are drawn along glide direction and are anchored on the adjacent four column holder posts in two ends, first one end is fixed before slip rope is fixing, the other end adopts jack cucurbit by slip rope tensioning, after slip rope tensioning with 4 groups of buckles by slip rope fixation, when end frame is highly higher single-side stand, the anchoring angle of slip rope should be not more than 60 degree, and support 5 need make of cable wind rope and effectively draws anchor, prevent suspension cable stressed rearward end support generation capsizing case.
In the present embodiment, haulage gear includes hoist engine and fixed pulley two parts; the two is separately positioned on the support at two ends; and fixed pulley frame is arranged between two parties; make hoist engine cable traction line of force as far as possible consistent with gallery truss center line; guarantee, in gallery truss slipping, larger off normal does not occur; cause problems such as stopping cunning, grab, increase quality safety risk.
The installation of haulage gear is as follows: install on rear four column holder installing gallery truss and fix a hoist engine, as the traction power of gallery truss slippage; Front four column holder fixes a fixed pulley with wire rope, when the drag cable of hoist engine is connected with gallery truss, first the hoist cable buckle that 4.5m is long is fixed on lower edge termination, gallery truss both sides, drag cable is connected again with in the middle of the hoist cable fixed, when gallery truss is pulled stressed, truss two string will be simultaneously stressed, prevent truss skeleton deformed in tension.
Slip rope is provided with movable pulley, gallery truss is connected with slip rope by movable pulley, during construction, gallery truss on mounting platform assembled complete after, with jack cucurbit, gallery truss is connected with the movable pulley that slip rope is installed, pull jack cucurbit, slowly by unsettled for gallery truss integral about 50mm, check slip rope system frame, slip rope, jack cucurbit, whether the components such as movable pulley have distortion, the situation of loosening, to be checked errorless after to carry out forward short distance examination more sliding, again check slip rope system frame, slip rope, jack cucurbit, whether the components such as pulley have distortion, the situation of loosening.After slip rope system components to be confirmed all normally works, hand fit's hoist engine proceeds the operation of truss transitional care, in slipping when slip rope stressed downwarp radian is excessive, with jack cucurbit boist truss to adjust the height of truss, until traction slides onto steel truss installation site.
In the present embodiment, safety device mainly comprise railing post, safety rope and cable wind rope, its installation is as follows: in making, slippage, installation process, be work high above the ground, safety point danger is very large, for the execution conditions of each job step, takes safety measure targetedly.Platform make time by berm width restriction and be convenient to trussmember movement, turn to, all adopt flexible protective, namely on platform, be welded and fixed railing post every 3m, on railing post, form flexible protective railing with manila rope colligation; Before sliding construction, to highly higher single-side stand, adopt 2 road cable wind ropes to draw anchor to support, prevent single-side stand from toppling by lateral force; When slippage, installation, slippage framework sets up a safety rope, safety belt is hung thereon by slippage operating personnel.
In the present embodiment, adopt segmentation simultaneously organizing construction, hold under monolithic truss is adopted the same examination of truss hang, try sliding, check errorless after, by place for the slippage of segmentation monolithic truss.According to the position of truss center line on support and slippage framework, adjust the position of each section of monolithic truss, after adjusting to the right place, truss is done at two ends temporary fixed.Slippage is in place successively from far near for four sections of monolithic steel trusss, carries out monolithic docking after temporary fixed, then carries out the installation of upper and lower string support member by centre to two ends.
Installation is fixed and landing slab is mated formation: after truss slides onto support position, slowly loosens jack cucurbit, manually prize gallery truss apart from during post datum 100mm, and make gallery truss support bolt hole aligning capital pre-embedded bolt, the slow off the hook of jack cucurbit is in place.Suspension column surrounding adopts wedge (carving son) to hold out against, and corrects gallery truss, breaks off relations after being welded and fixed after making horizontal movement and perpendicularity deviation within specification and design allowed band.Follow-up steel platform pavement construction can be carried out after this work completes.
According to above-described embodiment, just the present invention can be realized well.What deserves to be explained is; under prerequisite based on above-mentioned design principle; for solving same technical problem; even if some making on architecture basics disclosed in this invention are without substantial change or polishing; the essence of the technical scheme adopted is still the same with the present invention, therefore it also should in protection scope of the present invention.
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1. a mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, it is characterized in that, comprise the support (5) being installed on mounting platform two ends, be arranged at mounting platform top and the slippage framework be made up of column (1), with described slippage framework with the use of slip rope (6), and haulage gear; At two described column tops with end, crossbeam (2) is installed, the upper junction near itself and described column of described crossbeam (2) is provided with the gusset (4) with through hole (3), described slip rope (6) through top, described slippage framework two ends gusset (4) and two ends is anchored on described support (5), gallery truss is positioned at described slippage framework and is drawn by described haulage gear, upper mobile at described slip rope (6) by the movable pulley be arranged on described slip rope (6).
2. a kind of mountain area according to claim 1 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, it is characterized in that, described haulage gear comprises the hoist engine (7) be arranged on one of them support (5), and the fixed pulley (8) be arranged on another support (5), be connected on gallery truss after described fixed pulley (8) walked around by the drag cable of described hoist engine (7).
3. a kind of mountain area according to claim 2 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, it is characterized in that, described fixed pulley (8) is arranged between two parties, to make the drag cable of described hoist engine consistent with the center line of gallery truss.
4. a kind of mountain area according to claim 3 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, is characterized in that, the lower edge termination, both sides of described gallery truss is provided with hoist cable, and the drag cable of described hoist engine is moved by described hoist cable traction gallery truss.
5. a kind of mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus according to any one of Claims 1-4, is characterized in that, be also provided with some support posts (9) in described mounting platform bottom.
6. a kind of mountain area according to claim 5 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, is characterized in that, described support post (9) is undertaken drawing anchor by looking at wind rope (10).
7. a kind of mountain area according to claim 1 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, is characterized in that, arrange a railing post on described mounting platform top every three meters.
8. a kind of mountain area according to claim 1 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, is characterized in that, described slippage framework is also provided with for the safety rope in connection construction personnel.
9. a kind of mountain area according to claim 1 gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus, is characterized in that, described gallery truss is connected with described movable pulley by jack cucurbit (11).
10. the implementation method of a kind of mountain area gallery truss air translation hanging apparatus as described in any one of claim 1-9, is characterized in that, comprise the following steps:
(1) in the step of mounting platform two ends setting support;
(2) step of slippage framework is built at mounting platform top by column;
(3) at the welded top gusset of slippage framework, by slip rope through gusset and the step be anchored on support is drawn at two ends along glide direction;
(4) step of haulage gear is installed on support;
(5) step of assembled gallery truss on mounting platform;
(6) gallery truss sections is become some truss elements;
(7) by the step that truss element is connected with the movable pulley on slip rope by jack cucurbit;
(8) step of haulage gear truss frame for connecting unit;
(9) hand fit's haulage gear carries out truss element transitional care, until truss element slides onto the step of installation site;
(10) all truss elements are slid onto installation site by repeated execution of steps (7) ~ (9);
(11) carry out docking assembling after truss element is temporary fixed and form complete gallery truss;
(12) gallery truss is aimed at pre-embedded bolt, fixing step is installed.
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