Wheel load eccentricity Due to wheel load eccentricity we used to assume that 60% of total wheel load will

act on one side of rail and 40% of the same will act on other side of rail.( In this assumption, we were not aware of actual value of ey ). The disribution of wheel load due to its eccentricity is considered as shown below.

Now torsional moment due to uneven distribution of wheel load at centerline of crane rail will be as below; Tm1 = 0.6Fz X 0.5bb 0.4Fz X 0.5bb = Fz X (0.6 X 0.5 0.4 X 0.5) X bb = Fz X 0.1 X bb Rail Eccentricity The value of rail eccentricity we used to consider 0.5 times web thickness or 10mm whichever is less. And the torsional moment at centreline of crane girder will be as below. Tm2 = Fz x e

Hence the total torsional moment Tm = Tm1 + Tm2. This is background of the calculation which I have sent.

This was the concept we used to follow. Due to poor workmanship rail eccentricity can be more than tw/2 or even more than that. But why tw/2, that is the question. I think, if Rail eccn is less than tw/2, in that case it is very difficult to discard the rail alignment by visual inspection. So we must have to consider atleast this amount (tw/2) of eccentricity in our design. And if rail eccn is more than tw/2 or more, then that alignment might be dicarded by inspecton team very easily. So we dont have to consider any unreasonable value of rail eccentricity. But for being in conservative side we consider rail eccn as smaller of tw/2 or 10mm. To some extent this explanation is ok for any kind of rail fiixing, I think. The amount of rail eccentricity should also depend on the rail fixing detail. The amount of movement, which we will allow in the adopted detail for rail fixing, that amount should be considered as rail eccentricity in our design calculation. Note that in the above explanation rail eccentricity has a relation with web thickness of gantry girder . If we dont want to follow euronorms, then the above explanation can be used for design of gantry girder. In eurocode we get wheel load eccetricity as 0.25 times the head width of rail (not the base width) which is quite high. And its minimum value restricted to tw/2. This means, here wheel load eccn has a relation with web thickness of gantry girder. Here you can see that the value of br/4 is quite high. And eurocode never says anything about rail eccentricity. So if we follow euronorms only then, we can use wheel load eccentricity and ignore rail eccentricity. You can see that the value of total eccentricity in both the cases (dco practise & euronorms) will be almost same. Ofcourse that will also depend on geometry of crane rail.