Introduction

Present situation of telecommunication industry in Sri Lanka is developing very fast. Five GSM service providers are involving to provide their services efficiently and effectively for the sake of country development. They target rural areas of country by expanding their network. After war condition resettled internal displaced people in those areas lack of communication is become a huge problem to uplift their living standards. As a result Mobitel telecommunication service provider launches a project to expand their network in North and East parts of country after war. But some parts of those areas have not supply electricity power yet. Hence three phase AC generators are needed to supply network. Therefore Sri Lanka Mobitel has decided to supply fifty numbers of 15 KVA generators to their newly implementing locations. At very firstly those are temporary implement locations. The cost of transporting generators to sites under this condition is higher by boom trucks. Therefore they decided to carry generators by small trailer which can be hanging by small vehicles. Specifications of generator L*W*H Weight (75*29*62) -1500kg

Under these situations low cost and good strength trailer need to be manufactured to achieve the objective. Portable generator trailer should be capable to place any position by their adjustable jacks. Specifications of materials collect from material books. oo

Contents 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Abbreviations used in this report 3.0 Equipment and materials for the trailer 4.0 Structural steel for the trailer 5.0 Technical data 6.0 Design of trailer beam 7.0 Design of joints 8.0 Design of footings 9.0 Data and formulas used in design calculation 10.0 Bill of quantities for the trailer 11.0 Reference 12.0 Drawing of the trailer

1 INTRODUCTION

Electricity generators are widely used in the present global activities. These equipment are highly useful in any event when an electricity failure has taken place. However, since these generators are of considerable weight, they need some kind of method of transporting them from place to place. On the other hand that solution must satisfy the safety of the equipment and convenient transportation. In general, the trailers are used to accomplish these.

Trailers are normally the structures assembled with steel beams and som other parts. The structure must be stiff enough to handle static and dynamic load imposed on the beams, without any mark of failure. Static loads are the self weight of the structure itself and the weight of the equipment loaded on it. Dynamic loads are porminant when the trailer is moving on the road specially when it is being accelerated and retarded. Therefore. The static loads are the forces acting in the vertical planes and the dynamic loads are those acting on the horizontal planes.

In this report we are going to assess the strength of a trailer structure which has been assembled with steel beams, in order to carry a electricity generator. The appropriate loading and the design details are described in necessary places. The axial forces, bending moments and shear forces of the beams are taken after analysis and the conclusions has been made based on those values. The strengths of bolted joints used for assembly has also been assessed.