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Table of
Contents
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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
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Cranes and Derricks
- 3rd Edition
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Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P.
Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro
ISBN: 0070578893 576 pp
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