• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.614-617
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• 2003

Recently the demand of constructing high-rised building grows larger. So it becomes more important to make an exact plan of a tower cranes which has an important position in high-rised building construction. Nevertheless businessmen of construction sites only depend on a great store of experience without a clear process of locating tower cranes. The object of this study is to set up the process model for locating tower cranes. The study went off through a study of related documents, an interview with some experts and a visiting of job sites. In result the study suggests a process model which has four steps of considering an establishing, disjointing, a radius of working, easy working. Case study was examined to estimate the feasibility and applicability of the proposed model. As a result, the model is proven to be a method to locate tower cranes quickly and cleary, and to operate properly as a decision-making tool.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.407-413
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• 2014

Appropriate selection of lifting equipments for a high-rise building construction project is one of the important factors to the project's success. Proper position of a tower crane on a construction site is so important to be determined by an expert or an experienced construction manager who draws working range of a tower crane and moves it over 2D(dimensional) site layout plan. 3D CAD, BIM, and virtual reality are is used for building design and construction, but it is not usual to use them for temporary facility planning or selection of a tower crane. This study proposes a suitable method to use augmented reality to select proper position of tower cranes. An augmented reality prototype is implemented by Vuforia and Unity 3D on a smart device to verify the practicability of the proposed method. The prototype application installed on a smart device shows several tower cranes on different markers in a real architectural drawing to locate the proper tower crane.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.213-222
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• 1993

This paper is concerned with automation of tower cranes in view of the robust control of tower crane during take-off, load hoisting, load lowering and landing. The model equation of the tower crane is induced by using Lagrange's equation and it is linearized at equillibrium point. The control is realized by adopting the optimal regulator method. The effectiveness is proved through the experimental results for the oscillation control of cargo rope and the position controls of trolley and boom by the implementation of digital control using 16 bits microcomputer for the designed optimal control law.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.127-134
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• 2009

This study aims to provide an optimal model for the layout of multiple tower cranes and material stockyards which have multiple candidate positions. In a high-rise building construction, the positional allocation of tower cranes and material stockyard has an effect on the travel time of material hauling. In addition, in case of using multiple tower cranes, specific location of a tower crane allocated to each material determines the efficiency of the works. Current optimal model limited to the optimization of position of single tower crane and material stockyards. This study suggests optimal model both for the positions of multiple tower cranes and material stockyards. Layout of multiple tower cranes requires additional allocation of each crane to each material hauling and control on the minimum distance between tower cranes. This optimization model utilizes genetic algorithm to deal with complex interaction on the candidate positions of multiple tower cranes, material stockyards, and types of materials. In order to identify its utility, case study was performed.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.33-40
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• 2010

Recently, the scale of construction work has been growing, and buildings are becoming higher. To enable greater efficiency of construction work, the use of vertical transportation equipment has been radically increasing. In this context, many studies have been conducted on tower cranes. While these studies have discussed issues such as the selection of tower cranes, the optimization of locations, and the hoisting time of tower cranes, there has been no research on the installation of tower cranes. As such, the installation of tower cranes on construction sites has been accomplished based on subjective judgment and technical assistance, and the experience of workers in equipment companies. Therefore, this study analyzes the productivity of tower cranes using simulation methodology, and proposes a generalized model of the installation process of tower cranes in order to offer a basic resource that site managers can directly utilize.

• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.190-198
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• 2008

Recently construction equipments have been used in line with building the structures that have become taller, larger and complex. And as the works at the elevated level for apartment and residential-commercial building projects have been on the rise, the number of tower cranes mobilized tends to be increased too. Due to such an increase in using the equipment serves the critical factor for the project management. The climbing-type tower crane, which increases its height following the structure, has been increased and the need for selecting the optimal model has been increasingly Important in securing the stability. The study hereby proposes the model to evaluate the stability of the climbing-type tower crane. The model was designed to assist in selecting the type of crane as well as in developing the design of Collar comprising the 3 types of support member, evaluating the stability and designing the embed. The model proposed is expected to make commitment in selecting the optimal type of equipment and evaluating the support member and embed for enhancing the stability, thereby ultimately enabling to implement the prefect in efficient way.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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• autumn
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• pp.387-392
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• 2001

The purpose of this study is to develop the process to support and evaluate experts' decision making on vertical transportation planning in high-rise building constructions. Experts generally carry out the vertical transportation planning by heuristic methods, so there is a possibility that their decisions failed. The failure of the vertical transportation planning can be result in much loss of time and cost. The process presented in this paper evaluates experts' alternatives, organizes the results of the vertical transportation plan, and then leads to the systematic flow of materials and crews.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.325-326
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.64-65
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• 2015

As construction projects have increased in size and height recently, lifting accounts for increasingly greater portion and tower cranes are used more frequently. At present, the selection and arrangement of tower crane are depend on the experience of experts. However, since the number of experts is fairly limited and a database for tower cranes regarding lifting capacity, operation properties, rent, etc has not been widely employed, tower cranes are often not effectively selected and arranged which can cause cost overruns and delays in the lifting work. To address such issues, this study attempts to perform a basic study for development of automatic arrangement algorithm of tower crane using drawing recognition. If relevant database is established and the algorithm suggested in this study is refined more systematically, even beginning level engineers will be able to plan tower crane arrangement in a way comparable to experienced experts.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.65-70
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• 2010

Steel frame construction in high places entails many risk factors. In order to improve the safety and productivity of steel frame construction, a project to develop a robotic tower-crane has been undertaken. As the first step, a real-time lifting-path tracking system is being developed. In a previous study, a laser-based tracking system was proposed. While a laser-based tracking system requires at least three laser sensors to detect the x, y, z coordinates of a lifted steel member, a GPS-based system has an advantage over the laser-based system, in that the x, y, z coordinates of a lifted steel member can be detected by a single GPS sensor. To improve the accuracy, arelative positioning method using two GPS sensors was proposed in a previous study. This paper reports an improved GPS-based lifting-path tracking system of a tower crane based on an integrated RF modem and GPS system. The results showedthat the RF modem could successfully send the identifier information to a server a maximum distance of 1 km away from the lifted steel beam, and the lifting path information of each beam captured by the GPS-based tracking system was successfully saved together. Also, byusing an improved algorithm for the GPS relative positioning method, the deviation was reduced to 0.61 m on average.