Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Basic Concepts and Components

Chapter 2: Crane and Derrick Configurations

Chapter 3: Loads and Forces
 
Chapter 4: Stability Against Overturning

Chapter 5: Mobile Crane Installations

Chapter 6: Tower Crane Installations

Chapter 7: Derrick Installations

Chapter 8: Controlling Risk

Appendix A: Conversions Between U.S. Customary, SI, and other Metric Units
 
Appendix B:  Glossary of Crane and Derrick terms

 Cranes and Derricks - 3rd Edition

Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro     ISBN: 0070578893    576 pp
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