C-34 · STRUCTURAL · LIFTING · ASME BTH-1 · EN 1993-1-8
Lifting lug
Enter the weight and the slings: it picks the shackle, sizes the plate, the cheek plates and the welds, checks every failure mode at the hole and at the base, and gives you a drawing and the calculation to print, with a true-size DXF for cutting.
HOW IT'S CALCULATED · WITH YOUR NUMBERS
Step by step, with your numbers
References: ASME BTH-1 (design of below-the-hook lifting devices), equations (3-1), (3-25) and (3-45) to (3-55): pin-connected plates and welds; EN 1993-1-8:2005, 3.13 (pin connections), 4.5.3.3 (fillet welds); EN 1993-1-1 6.2; Duerr, Pinned Connection Strength and Behavior, J. Struct. Eng. 132(2) (2006); Ricker, Design and Construction of Lifting Beams, AISC Engineering Journal (1991); shackle dimensions from the Crosby G-2130 published table.
BEYOND ONE LUG