The harmonic analysis is performed with a view to predict the performance of the crane if a cycle time dependent load is allowed to act at the trolley. All the other higher frequencies are also found to be very low making the jib crane less stiff and highly stable for any transient loading.

The fundamental frequency is found out to be 0.323589 Hz.

The model analysis shows the natural frequencies of the crane to be in the lower range 0-10Hz. The static stress was found to be within the limits of safety. The maximum stress obtained is 147.8Mpa which is less than the allowable stress. The deflection is obtained as 3.709mm, when the load applied is 1.5 tons. The hand calculations of the column mounted jib crane have been done using simple strength of material expressions. The deflection values, Von Misses stress etc are obtained using the static analysis. The detailed drawing of various parts of the crane is obtained from TATA Advanced systems Ltd (TASL) Adibhatta village, Hyderabad. A column mounted jib crane of 1.5 Ton capacity is modelled using CATIA which is imported into ANASYS where calculations are performed. In this work, a static, modal and harmonic analysis of a column mounted jib crane using ANASYS software is presented.