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DESIGN GUIDELINES
1. General
Appendix A
Appendix B
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MSI LIFTING LUG / PAD EYES DESIGN GUIDELINES
1. General
All Permanently attached lifting points on all new equipment constructed after 1st March 2002 for
MSI should be designed to recognize Principal National Standards or Classification Guidelines.
Example:
The design of the surrounding structure to which lifting points are affixed should allow
transmission of the load from the lifting point to the surrounding structure.
Adequate clearances should be provided between the pad eye and the rigging. Lifting points
should be free from any detrimental defects caused by oxy-cutting, arc welding, etc.
All Lifting Point design must be approved by MSI before beginning of construction. All
calculation, dimension, material specification and welding requirement must be clearly presented in the
drawing.
All Approved Lifting Point should be subject to inspection and NDT by competent person. The
NDT report should be submitted to MSI for filing. Load test will only be done on case to case basic.
Weight uncertainty;
Weight growth potential;
Uncertainty in Center of Gravity;
Dynamic amplification factor (DAF) ;
Diagonalling effects;
Local eccentricities arising from pad eye connection details;
Drag loads on equipment to be lifted in water;
Reviewing the load Radius Chart for the Lifting Device (Crane) taking into account the
weight of crane rope over the head sheave, the weight of the hook and hook block, and the
weight of the rigging as part of the load weight;
Maximum hoist speed;
Wave height and period.
Wind speed
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3. Pad Eye Design
Load - Determine of required Design Load
3 X R x g.
The load should be considered as evenly distributed between (n-1) pad eyes where n is
the actual number of padeyes. On units with a single point suspension (e.g. bottlerracks), the load
of 3XRXg is of course taken by this single padeye.
For resulting sling force on the pad eyes, the sling angle must be taken into account, so
that the resulting sling load (RSL) on each padeye will be:
3XRXg
RSL = (n-1) X cos v
The steel grade used for pad eyes shall be clearly specified on the design drawings.
Preferable A516 material.
Hole sizes in pad eyes should be bored or drilled to provide a diameter equal to the
shackle pin diameter plus 3mm or 4% greater than the shackle pin diameter, whichever gives the
larger hole. The thickness of the pad eye should be at least 75% of the shackle width to avoid
twisting the shackle. The maximum thickness of the pad eye shall be such that a total minimum
gap of 5mm is maintained to avoid binding. Bolted on pad eyes should not be used on offshore
containers. The required thickness of the padeye should be based on the following shackle
standard unless otherwise specified by MSI.
In short, the determined pad eyes hole size and thickness with respect to shackle
dimension to ensure that shackle with smaller capacity will not be able to be placed into the pad
eyes. This is to prevent damage to the pad eyes and over loading of the undersized shackle.
Appendix A shown an example of the Pad Eye design from APEA, Guidelines for Lifting
Equipment. The shackle dimension and loading is similar to the specification stated in U.S.
Federal Specification RR-C-271D.
Appendix B has shown an example of the dimension of Crosby Shackle that meet the
required U.S. Federal Specification RR-C-271D.
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APPENDIX A
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APPENDIX B
SHACKLE
CROSBY
BOW TYPE: MODEL: 2130
DEEE TYPE: MODEL: 2150
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Bow & Dee Shackle -Crosby G2130 & 2150 Shackle
Note: Reference to Crosby Catalogue, Block & Fitting for Wire Rope & Chain, Page 69.
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