W.P. van der Most
Design of a shuttle for a ETV of a High-Bay Container Warehouse
Engineering Assignment,
Report 98.3.TT.5072, Transport Engineering and Logistics.
In this report a design is made of a shuttle for a Elevating and Transfer
Vehicle (ETV) for a high-bay warehouse for containers. The shuttle is part of
the system to store and retrieve containers. The design has the following
characteristics:
- 40-ft container shuttle
- Head-on storage of the container
- No wind load (Warehouse is a closed structure)
- Primarily optimized to be as short and narrow as possible, secondarily for
a low mass.
- Calculations on the basis of Deutsche Institut fur Normung (DIN) and Dutch
TGB.
The main parts that are designed are:
- The chassis
- The wheels
- A lifting system
- Travelling drive
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