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14.1
General terms and transport motions
Displacement of goods, persons, animals, material, energy or information from an originating to a destination place.
All actions involved with transportation, not only the displacement, but also storage, packaging, handling, stowage, lashing, transhipment etc.
Design, co-ordination and control of the operational functions of a transport system.
Equipment used for transportation, like a vessel, airplane, train, road vehicle, conveyor etc.
Goods or material carried by a means of transport.
Cargo consisting of single objects when considering transhipment.
Cargo in the form of a heap of loose particles like grain or pulverized material.
Transfer of cargo from one means of transport to another.
Vertical transportation of objects.
Lift by means of a rope, while one or more horizontal motion components of the lifted object are not guided.
Rotation of the jib of a crane in a vertical plane, usually intended to also move the tip towards/outwards the base of the crane.
Rotation of the jib of a crane in a horizontal plane.
Inclination of the boom or mast of transport equipment.
Forward movement of a means of transport, usually horizontal along a track.
1. Free rotational motion about a vertical axis concerning a body suspended by two or more ropes. 2. Deviation of the travel direction of a rail mounted vehicle, tending to friction or jamming with the track guiding.
Sideways oscillation of a suspended or floating body.
Vertical motion of a floating body due to waves.
Longitudinal motion of a floating body due to wind or waves.
Rotational motion of a guided or floating body about the longitudinal axis.
Inclination of a suspended or floating body confirming a rotation about its longitudinal axis.
Rotational motion of a guided or floating body about a horizontal axis in traverse direction.
Inclination of the longitudinal axis of a suspended or floating body.
Rotational motion of a guided or floating body about a vertical axis.
Centre of mass of the liquid occupied by a floating body.
Intersection point of the vertical line through the buoyancy point and the symmetry plane of a vessel, for a given inclination.
Height difference between the metacentre and the centre of mass of a vessel, as a measure for its roll resistance and stability.
Distance between the internal sides of rails on a railway line.
Profile through which a rail vehicle and its loading must pass, taking into account tunnels and track-side obstacles.
14.2
Hoisting and lifting equipment
Prismatic hollow beam in horizontal position.
Horizontal beam constructed as an open framework with a regular pattern.
Generic term for an arm that can be luffed to guide an object or suspend material.
Generic term for a vertical beam intended for guiding an object to be lifted.
Boom that can rotate about a vertical axis.
Undercarriage of a rail-mounted transport vehicle with more than two wheels per rail, such that all wheel support forces are equal.
1. Wheeled carriage that is suspended from and travels on an overhead track. 2. Wheeled container.
Trolley in hoist equipment, which has the travel drive in the base and transfers the travel motion by ropes.
Rope trolley, which has both the travel and the hoist drive in the base.
Trolley in hoist equipment, which has both the travel and the hoist drive at the trolley.
Device for catching, holding and releasing a portion of bulk solid cargo.
Grab with two shelves, to be closed by a rope via an upper sheave block at the hoisted part and a lower sheave block at the part (or hinge) connecting the shelves.
Grab with two shelves rigidly connected to hinged arms, to be closed by a rope via a sheave block at each arm above the hinge.
Arms of a gripper for a land container, engaging with standardized slots at the bottom.
Certain corner point construction at the top and bottom corners of a container to allow its handling, stacking and securing.
1. Tool of container handling equipment, typically in the form of a cone on a shaft, that engages and locks into a corner fitting. 2. Device, to be inserted and rotated (manually) into a corner fitting to secure a container.
Double-sided twist-lock device, to be applied between two stackable containers, that locks the upper container - equipped with these twist-locks at the bottom corner fittings – automatically to the lower container when being placed.
Adjustable fitting on hoisting or lifting equipment, designed to connect with the upper corner fittings of a maritime container or other container by means of twist-locks.
Crane with a bridge-like frame on four legs carrying the track of a trolley.
Seaside boom extension of a container gantry crane.
Landside bridge extension of a container gantry crane.
Collapsible set of suspension bars for the outreach.
A trough for bulk solid cargo.
Crane for which luffing of the boom results in a horizontal radial displacement of the load.
Specific arrangement of a level luffing crane, based on a four-bar linkage, that results in a horizontal path of the hoisting tip.
Certain design of a double boom crane, in which the coupler curve of the hoisting tip is 8-shaped.
Level luffing crane according to its inventor Toplis, in which the hoisting rope has a three-fold sheave block between the base frame and the boom.
Automated Stacking Crane.
Rubber-tired overhead lifting vehicle for moving or stacking containers on a level reinforced surface.
Vehicle equipped with a tilting and telescoping boom to lift, move or stack containers and other load units.
Vehicle equipped with a (telescopic) mast and horizontal forks to lift, move or stack pallets and other load units.
Diagram describing the maximum allowable net load of a crane as a function of the crane radius or distance to the crane base.
Polygon of supporting points of transportation equipment, that has to be considered for overturning.
Sequence of movements in transportation equipment for one payload.
Classification number as a measure of the number of load cycles per time unit.
One of the characteristic load situations at which the design of machinery, regarding its strength, must be based.
Multiplication factor for a (static) applied force in a load case, to account for dynamic effects.
Multiplication factor for all applied forces of a load case, to account for vibrations of the whole structure.
Spectrum of net loads occurring during the load cycles, for a certain time of operation.
Weighted cubic of the ratio of the average net load, as determined from the load spectrum, and the maximum net load.
Classification number of the service condition of equipment based on the load spectrum factor, where the load spectrum is determined for the whole lifetime of the equipment.
Ratio of minimum and maximum stress at the same place of the construction during a load cycle.
Graph, based on the stress ratio and the maximum allowable material stress, to determine the permissible design stress regarding fatigue.
Plurality of strands, helically laid in one or more layers around an axis or core.
Arrangements of wires, helically laid about an axis, wire or fibre.
Fibre, wire or independent wire rope about which the strands of a wire rope are helically laid.
Pitch direction for the wires of a strand, or strands of a rope, similar to a left {right} hand screw.
Wire rope in which each layer of strands lies in the crevices or cracks of the underlying layer such that they are parallel to one another, approximating line contact.
Wire rope in which two successive layers are alternately left lay and right lay such that the strands cross over one another, resulting in point contact.
Wire rope with a special arrangement of layers to obtain significant resistance against torsion.
Wire rope with a special arrangement of layers to decouple tension, bending and torsion.
Lay in which the strands and the wires in the strands, in a certain layer of a wire rope, are laid in opposite directions.
Lay in which the strands and the wires in the strands, in a certain layer of a wire rope, are laid in the same direction.
Layer of a wire rope in which the strands are alternately regular lay and lang lay.
Distance parallel to the axis of a wire rope, in which the outer strands make one complete helix about the axis of the rope.
Ratio of measured breaking strength of a wire rope to the aggregate strength of all individual wires tested separately.
Angle between a rope axis and the first sheave plane, as will occur when the rope is wound on to or from a drum.
14.3
Belts and conveyors
Continuous belt or chain for transportation of bulk solid cargo, goods or people.
Supporting roll of a rope or conveyor belt.
Idler that can be moved to obtain a (static) pre-tension in a conveyor.
Ratio of the measured breaking strength to the aggregate strength of the individual yarns or cords of the fabric.
Amplitude ratio of a sinusoidal input stress signal to the strain response, in the longitudinal direction of a belt.
Phase angle of the strain response to a sinusoidal input stress signal in a belt.
Cosine part of the dynamic Young’s modulus regarding the loss angle.
Sine part of the dynamic Young’s modulus regarding the loss angle.
Ratio of the loss modulus and the storage modulus (also the tangent function of the loss angle).
Tensor function that specifies the stress response to a unit strain increment for viscoelastic material.
Material damping function for a spectrum of relaxation times.
Material damping model with a discrete relaxation spectrum, to represent the constitutive behaviour of the material for a certain range of load frequencies.
Simplest possible Maxwell model, consisting of two parallel springs and a damper in series with one of the springs.
Support by a viscoelastic layer described by a finite set of Maxwell elements perpendicular to the layer.
Initially higher friction when starting to slip.
Velocity describing the transition phase between dry friction at lower and viscous friction at higher velocity.
Transport of freight along coasts and inland waterways, using smaller ships.
14.4
Vehicle science
Integral component part of a vehicle carrying the wheels and wheel suspension, and generally includes brakes, steering components and/or gear drives.
Principle for the steering wheels of a vehicle that all wheel axes of rotation must intersect in one point, which is the centre of curvature of the path to travel.
Axis of rotation between the bearing house of a steered wheel and the wheel suspension.
Angular deviation of a wheel plane from a line perpendicular to the road surface.
Angular deviation of the pivot line of a steered wheel from a vertical plane through the wheel axis of rotation.
Distance between a vertical line through the centre of the wheel and the centre of lateral shear stress of the tyre contact patch.
Empirical formula, describing the slip force as a function of slip, for a tyre of a vehicle in steady state motion, dependent on parameters such as wheel load and camber angle.
Lateral displacement of a rolling wheel, caused by a lateral force, due to viscoelastic deformation and/or elastic deformation of the tyre belt.
Difference angle between the travel velocity of the wheel centre and its projection onto the wheel plane during cornering.
Ratio of the lateral force and the slip angle for infinitesimal small slip angles.
Cornering situation of a wheeled vehicle travelling a curved path, in which an increased lateral acceleration results in a larger {smaller} difference between the slip angles of the front wheels and the rear wheels.
Ratio of required steering angle adjustment and a change of the lateral acceleration, by incrementing the vehicle travel speed, to drive a vehicle through a path with constant radius (a negative factor means oversteer).
Maximum speed, of a vehicle with oversteer, for which the straight forward motion remains stable.
Vehicle with an understeer coefficient equal to zero.
Self-excited vibration in the steering mechanism of front wheels, typically with amplitude about the pivot line.
Simplest possible model of a vehicle for describing its dynamics in the horizontal plane, consisting of a frame part and a steering part hinged to it.
Non-powered road vehicle for the carriage of goods, intended to be coupled to a motor vehicle.
Trailer of which the weight is substantially carried by the truck when coupled to it.
Motor vehicle designed to be coupled to a semi-trailer.
Motor vehicle and more than one trailer.
Joint connecting a semi-trailer to a motor vehicle.
Device attached to a truck to connect to a trailer or another road vehicle.
Automated or automatic guided vehicle.
14.5
Transportational logistics
System of organizations, people, technology, (production) activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer.
General term for the different kinds of facilities that are used in transportation, directed to infrastructure (road, rail, air, sea, inland waterway, pipeline) and/or means of transport.
Changing of transport mode.
Means of transport and its loading.
Box or platform, with dimensions and handling options that confirm a standard, to store cargo.
Mass of a load unit and its loading.
Transportation of goods or persons by two or more transport modes during one journey or trip.
Transportation of goods in one and the same load unit or road vehicle, which uses successively two or more transport modes without handling the goods themselves in changing modes.
Intermodal transport on a continent, where the major part of the journey is by rail or inland waterway, restricting the use of roads to the initial and final leg.
Load unit as a platform.
Pallet with standardized dimensions 800x1200 mm that can be handled by a fork lift truck.
Pallet with standardized dimensions 1000x1200 mm that can be handled by a fork lift truck.
Standardized package box with floor dimensions of 600x400 mm, or a whole division of this dimension.
Unit Load Device: load unit used for aircraft cargo.
Generic term for a box to carry freight for repeated use, usually stackable and fitted with devices for handling and securing.
Container with standardized dimensions according to ISO, strong enough to be stacked in a cellular ship and equipped with standardized corner castings for handling and securing.
Twenty foot Equivalent Unit: freight unit, based on the maritime container with a length of 20 feet, to measure the volume of containerized transport.
Frigid maritime container.
Container for use in continental multimodal transport, usually rail-road transport.
Land container, optimized for road vehicle dimensions, frequently equipped with folding legs on which the load unit stands when not on the vehicle.
Container conforming to standards laid down for transportation by aircraft.
Intermodal Transport Unit: containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers suitable for intermodal transport.
Roll-On Roll-Off, term used for road vehicles for modal shift to train or ship.
Transportation of complete road vehicles on trains, using roro techniques.
First {Last}-In First-Out, term used for storage of load units.
Study of the behaviour of a logistics system, regarding the states of its elements and their interactions in relation with an operational objective.
Device for responding to a transmitted radio signal, to exchange information.
Radio-Frequency IDentification; method, using a transmitted radio signal of predestined frequency, to exchange information between an antenna and a tag.
Signal to control AGV traffic.
Person or company who authorizes a transport action during any stage of a trip.
Person or company entitled to take delivery of the goods.
Person or company who puts goods in the care of a forwarder to be delivered to a consignee.
Actor in a model that (generally) solves an optimization problem.
Intermediary person or company who arranges for the carriage of goods and associated services on behalf of a shipper.
Person or company responsible for the carriage of goods, either directly or using a third party.
Loading {unloading} of cargo into {from} a container.
Flat-bottomed boat, usually not self-propelled and built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.
Central point for the collection, sorting, transhipment and distribution of goods for a particular area.
Vessel for short sea shipping of containers.
Hub service for containers in short sea shipping.