(a) Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a girder block lifting method and a jack-up stage used therefor and especially relates to a girder block lifting method which is preferable when a boiler module for a thermal power plant is lifted by a girder of a steel frame for an installation work and a jack-up stage used therefor.
(b) Description of the Related Art
In a thermal power plant having a large-scale pendant boiler, steel beams of a building are set and on top edge portions of the steel beam, a girder for supporting the boiler is provided to bridge the top edge portions and to support boiler component parts by hanging. For this configuration, a lifting construction method is generally used. In this method, modules of the boiler component parts carried in the steel frame are lifted up to the girder from the ground for several tens of meters by use of a plurality of lifting jacks provided on the girder and then the modules are hung and supported from the girder by use of a sling rod or the like. Such an operation is repeatedly carried out from the module assembled on the upper part of the boiler to the module assembled on the lower part of the boiler successively to construct a boiler equipment.
To the boiler module, collateral machineries are assembled in the middle of the operation on the ground or lifting operation. However, to avoid operation in a high spot, the machineries are assembled in a condition where the module is supported by a temporary beam provided on the ground side or is hung by the lifting jack in many cases. Moreover, there is known a method to avoid hanging heavy materials at a position high from ground. According to this method, as shown in
However, according to the conventional construction method of hanging the module with the girder, the girder 4 is temporarily placed on the ground and is gradually hung up for several tens of meters by a lifting jack installed at the girder joint portions on the top edge portions of the steel beams while the boiler modules are assembled. Therefore, there is a problem that the steel beams would incline or collapse inward due to lifting of heavy materials. Therefore, to prevent inclination or collapse of the steel beams 1, truss-structured large frames 7 and 8 are generally constructed as projecting toward the back surface side of the steel beam in a jetty manner as shown in
Moreover, according to the conventional method, the girder must be lifted between a pair of steel beams and joint fixed on the upper edge portions of the steel beams 1 and therefore the girder joint portions 2 are formed in a projecting manner on the inner surfaces of the upper edge portions of the steel beams 1, where the lifting jack 3 is mounted, and a lifting rod is connected to the girder for lifting. Therefore, shape of the girder joint portions 2 must be a special shape such as crossly-cut one so that a lifting rod hung from the lifting jack mounted on the upper surface of the girder joint portion 2 can be connected to the girder. Further, if the girder joint portion is shaped to have a special shape, there is a problem that the steel beam cannot be used for other construction methods using a girder which has a standard specification of other company.
The present invention has been made in consideration of the above conventional problems and is aimed at providing a girder block lifting method, which enables to lift up a girder block while achieving prevention of inclination of steel beams sufficiently without constructing a large truss frame aimed at preventing inclination of the steel beams inward, and a jack-up stage used therefor in the construction of a thermal power plant. Moreover, the present invention is aimed at providing a girder block lifting method, which enables to reuse a lifting jack and other equipment without mounting the lifting jack for lifting, including hydraulic machinery, on a building such as a steel beam, and a jack-up stage used therefor.
Further, the present invention is aimed at providing a girder block lifting method, which allows the girder to be jointed with the steel beam without having a specially shaped joint portion so that the steel beam can correspond to standard-shaped girders of other manufacturers, and a jack-up stage used therefor.
To achieve the above-mentioned purposes, the girder block lifting method according to the present invention is a lifting method to hang and support heavy materials by a girder block provided between steel beams, wherein a jack-up stage where a plurality of lifting jacks are mounted is provided between tops of the steel beams for temporary connection to form a rigid frame structure with the steel beams, the girder block placed on the ground is hung for connection by a lifting sling hung from the lifting jack, the girder block is jacked up and moved while a heavy module is assembled to the girder block, and the girder block is installed onto the upper edge portions of the steel beams.
In this case, the jack-up stage may be lifted onto the top of the steel beam by a crane for temporary connection after the steel beams are constructed.
Moreover, the jack-up stage is removed after the girder block is installed to the upper edge portion of the steel beam and is reused.
Further, the jack-up stage according to the present invention includes a frame stage which can be provided between tops of the steel beams to construct a rigid frame structure with the steel beams and a plurality of lifting jacks mounted on the frame stage, wherein the girder block and the heavy module assembled thereto are enabled to be jacked up and moved by the lifting jack.
More specifically, the jack-up stage includes a main beam which is provided between steel beams which are targets of the girder connection and enabled to construct a rigid frame construction, a height adjustment means mounted on a cross beam member being parallel to the main beam and connecting the other steel beams for setting the heights to the main beam equal, a connection beam for alternately connecting the main beam and the height adjustment means, and an auxiliary beam for connecting the connection beams, wherein a plurality of lifting jacks are provided on a frame stage formed by combining these beams and the girder block is enabled to be jacked up by a lifting sling hung from the top portion of the steel beam.
In these cases, it is preferable that hanging position by the lifting jack is enabled to be adjusted by moving in a plane surface.
The present invention having the above-mentioned structure may be applied to construction of a boiler for a thermal power plant and in this case, the present invention mainly includes a method of temporarily structuring a jack-up stage where a lifting jack is provided on upper portions of steel beams without a reinforcement frame, shaping the steel beams to have the rigid frame structure, forming a girder and a pressure containing part by the lower portion, and hanging the girder to be gradually jacked up. Needless to say, the present invention is not limited to the construction of a boiler of a thermal power plant but can be applied to construction of a large building where a container is hung from a beam on the roof.
By the above-mentioned configuration, in the present invention, especially when constructing a thermal power plant, the jack-up stage constructs a rigid frame structure together with the steel beam and therefore even if the lifting weight is applied to the jack on the jack-up stage, only vertical load is applied and it becomes possible to prevent inward inclination or fall of the steel beams. Therefore, it becomes possible to lift up the girder block without constructing a large-scale truss frame for prevention of inclination or fall of the steel beam on the back surface side thereof.
Moreover, since the jack-up stage is configured to be temporarily connected to the top of the steel beam, it is not necessary to install the lifting jack or other related hydraulic machinery to the building structure including the steel beam. Therefore, it becomes possible to reuse the equipment including the lifting jack equipment in other construction sites.
In addition, since it is not necessary to form a projected stage on an inner side of the steel beams to mount a hydraulic jack, operation can be carried out without providing a specially shaped joint portion when the girder is connected to the steel beam. Therefore, it becomes possible to correspond to a girder having a standard shape of other manufacturers.
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Hereinafter, an embodiment of a girder block lifting method and a jack-up stage used therefor according to the present invention will be explained in detail based on an example where the present invention is applied to lifting of a boiler module of a thermal power plant with reference to the drawings. Here, the following embodiment is just an embodiment example and various modifications may be made without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention.
Six steel beams 10 of building frame part of a thermal power plant are set up in advance. The steel beams 10 include three beams 10A on a front can portion side, three beams 10B on a rear can portion side, and two later-described beams for a girder 10C which are positioned in the middle of the beams 10A and 10B to be provided on building side wall side and are for attachment to the girder. Such steel beams 10 have about 60m of height in the case of the present embodiment. Although the steel beams 10 have a cross beam truss structured construction as shown in
The construction method according to the present embodiment is to provide a jack-up stage 14, on which a plurality of lifting jacks 12 are mounted, between top portions of the steel beams 10 to be temporarily connected so that the jack-up stage 14 forms rigid frame structure with the steel beams 10 as shown in
The jack-up stage 14 includes a frame stage which can be provided between tops of the steel beams 10 to construct a rigid frame structure with the steel beams 10 and the plurality of lifting jacks 12 mounted on the frame stage. Specifically, the frame stage included in the jack-up stage 14 has a main beam 20 which is provided between the beams for a girder 10C to enable construction of the rigid frame structure. Parallel to the main beam 20, top portions between other steel beams (between the front can portion beams 10A and between the rear can portion beams 10B) are connected by cross beams 22A and 22B of the cross beam truss. Moreover, the beam for a girder 10C is formed to be higher than the front can portion side beams 10A or the rear can portion side beams 10B and as a result the beams have different height. Therefore, onto both edge portions of the cross beams 22 (22A and 22B) having lower height than the main beam 20, gate-shaped bases 24 are attached as height adjustment means so that the upper edge portions of the main beam 20 and the gate-shaped bases 24 are positioned on a same plane surface. Then a connection beams 26 for connecting the main beam 20 and the pair of gate-shaped bases 24 with adjusted height are attached on both left and right sides. The connection beams 26 are positioned to be orthogonal to the main beam 20 and the cross beam 22. Moreover, a pair of auxiliary beams 28 for connecting the pair of left and right connection beams 26 are provided in front and rear and the auxiliary beams 28 are positioned to be parallel to the main beam 20 and the cross beam 22.
Part of actual configuration of the frame stage is shown in
Thus, the jack-up stage 14 which is constructed by mounting the plurality of lifting jacks 12 and the hydraulic pump 30 as driving source thereof is connected and fixed to the top of the steel beam 10 in a detachable manner and is separated from the steel beam 10 after construction is over to be reused in another construction site.
Providing the above-mentioned jack-up stage 14 on the top of the steel beam 10 enables at least the beams for a girder 10C to be connected by the main beam 20 so that rigid frame structure is formed. Then, the auxiliary beam 28 enables the steel beams 10A and 10B in front and rear of can to have the rigid frame structure in a similar manner in a condition where the auxiliary beam 28 is supported by the tops of each of beams 10 and the connection beam 26 enables to form the rigid structure in the front and rear directions of the can. Thus, in a condition where the already-built jack-up stage 14 is installed, even if large amount of lifting load is applied to the steel beam 10, only vertical load is applied and therefore it is possible to prevent inward inclination or fall of the steel beams 10.
In a condition where the jack-up stage 14 is thus installed on the top of the steel beam 10, the girder block 18 is constructed on the ground side. The girder block 18 includes a girder 32, center sills 34 provided in an orthogonal manner to the girder 32, and connection beams 36 for connecting the center sills 34, as schematically shown in
The girder block 18 to be lifted for operation is constructed as follows; as shown in
Subsequently, temporary joint of the girder block 18 is removed, the girder block 18 is jacked up to a predetermined height, and the boiler module 38 in lower position of the girder block 18 is assembled (Step 14) as shown in
Then, connection between the lifting jack 12 and the girder block 18 is removed and the jack-up stage 14 is removed by use of the crawler crane 40 (Step 18). The jack-up stage 14 thus removed can be transferred to another construction site and be used without any changes.
According to such an embodiment, when a thermal power plant is constructed, since the jack-up stage 14 configures a rigid frame structure with the steel beams 10, only vertical load is applied to the steel beams 10 even if lifting load is applied to the lifting jack 12 on the jack-up stage 14, and the steel beams 10 do not incline or fall inward. Therefore, it becomes possible to lift up the girder block 18 while the boiler module 38 is assembled on the girder block 18 on the ground side, without constructing a large-scale truss frame for prevention of inclination or fall of the steel beams 10 on the back surface side thereof in a projecting manner as shown in
Moreover, since the jack-up stage 14 is temporarily connected to the top of the steel beams 10, hydraulic equipment such as the lifting jack 12 and a hydraulic pump unit for lifting do not need to be installed on the building, including the steel beams 10. Therefore, the jack-up stage 14 including the lifting jack equipment can be reused in another site.
In addition, since it is unnecessary to form a projecting stage inside the steel beams 10 to mount a lifting jack, when the girder is mounted on the steel beams, shape of the joint portion does not need to have a special shape. Therefore, construction performance can be significantly improved and the steel beam can correspond to a girder having a standard shape of other manufacturers.
In the above-mentioned embodiment, the main beam 20, the connection beam 26, and the auxiliary beam 28 comprising the jack-up stage 14 are configured by laying one I-shaped steel on another so that the jack lifting sling 16 can be hung through a space between the two pieces of I-shaped steel. It is possible to move installation position of the lifting jack 12 by use of this space. Therefore, in a case where the girder block 18 is jacked up and there is a member connected on the steel beam 10 side, it is possible to move the girder block 18 in horizontal directions to prevent interference by such a member and to jack up the girder block. Needless to say, if a mechanism which enables the beams 20, 26, and 28 to slide is provided, horizontal movement adjustment can be more easily carried out and therefore there is an advantage that an accident between parts while operation is being carried out can be quickly avoided.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2008-175569 | Jul 2008 | JP | national |