A large number of workers, including Zhao Jingfu and Wang Zhuangyu, stood around the slipway, as if watching their children traveling far away, with countless concerns in their hearts.
There are countless colorful flags and streamers hanging around the giant steel boot, dressed like a bride getting married, and the workers who build it are parents who are both happy and a little disappointed.
Looking at the child who is about to leave, I know clearly that it will usher in a more brilliant moment of glory, but I still can't let go of those feelings.
The steel giant boots without strong power can only rely on the power of the tugboat to move forward, and the tugboat guardian angel is always paying attention to its safety.
The familiar sailors were busy on the pontoons above the water. To them, the huge pontoons looked like a wide hull, without any sense of narrowness. In front of the hundred-meter-long pontoons and huge columns, these tugs looked like
Like little toys.
The workers watched every move of the sailors, fearing that any of their actions would cause harm to their children. Some even shouted loudly and impatiently babbled about various precautions.
It seems that the sailors have long been accustomed to it, and they continue to do the work in hand without any response.
When all the preparations were done, several dull sirens sounded, and a burst of warm firecrackers sounded, which was a farewell blessing.
Four tugboats were deployed around the hull, connected by more than a dozen cables. As the tugboats made a loud noise, white waves surged in all directions, causing ripples one after another.
Driven by the tugboat, the giant steel boots slowly left the slipway and headed towards the closing slipway.
After sending away this huge steel boot, the workers looked at the sea with some nostalgia. Only the seagulls continued to follow the giant thing forward slowly. All the hard work seemed to disappear without a trace at that moment.
"Let's go! Let's go!" Zhao Jingfu slapped the apprentices beside him, "We will have more tasks like this in the future, this is just the beginning!"
As the workers left reluctantly, the giant steel boots floated in the sea, moving slowly. The cranes standing tall in the distance had made all preparations, and the red and colorful ones were waiting for all parts of the Blue Whale.
arrival.
As the most critical department in the construction of the Blue Whale, there is no doubt about the status of the closing slipway. In order to ensure the accuracy and safety of the closing, members of the Blue Whale's construction headquarters headed by Zhang Yujie have arrived several times a few days ago.
During the inspection work here, consultants including Professor Qin Shichao also put forward different suggestions.
For this closure, almost all of Clover's main design engineers were mobilized. This was the first time that Clover's design department within the Fuhai Group carried out detailed design on its own for a very large project, and it also proposed many unique design contents.
Whether the results can be achieved smoothly or not depends on the next collaboration.
As the chief designer of the design department Clover, Feng Chenyi naturally had to come and take on the technical support work, but he followed the construction department of Hailong Shipyard to close the slipway.
The components built by Hailong Shipyard are smaller in scale than Fengyang Shipyard, but are more complex, especially the installation of various equipment, which takes up most of the shipyard's construction period. This also requires the cooperation between design engineers and shipyards.
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As early as two months before the construction of the lower hull of the Blue Whale at Fengyang Shipyard was completed, Feng Chenyi had already arrived at the closing slipway to prepare various measures for the slipway.
According to the predetermined plan, after the lower hull arrives, the upper hull composed of the upper deck built by Beifeng Shipyard and the components of Hailong Shipyard will be lifted tens of meters as a whole, and then closed with the lower hull like a steel giant shoe, and finally
Compose the final form of the Blue Whale.
The one responsible for this most important task is the bridge crane with the strongest lifting capacity in the world owned by Fuhai Group.
So peaceful.
This was also the strongest guarantee for Fuhai Group’s final decision to build the branch.
Feng Chenyi grew up in a shipyard. Apart from the giant ship that was built, what impressed him most was the super-large bridge crane standing on the slipway. Its tall figure stood out from the crowd, not only in the shipyard, but also in the entire Longbin.
It can be regarded as an Optimus Prime-like existence on the coastline.
Since Taihe was built, it has long been the object of admiration for many shipyard workers, and Feng Chenyi is no exception.
At this time, Feng Chenyi, the chief designer of the Blue Whale, was standing at the top of Taihe, blowing the sea breeze, overlooking the huge shipyard and the endless sea, and looking around at the beautiful scenery of Longbin.
Thousands of sails compete and giant ships cruise on the vast sea, which is a spectacular scenery.
It's just that Feng Chenyi doesn't have time to appreciate the beautiful scenery in front of him now. The person in charge of Taihe is explaining the situation of the entire crane to everyone.
Although Feng Chen pays great attention to Taihe and even sees it every day, he only knows that it is a powerful crane and does not know the specific situation.
This time, the person in charge of the lifting department invited all the engineers to come over and explain the situation of Taihe in detail, so that everyone could have a deeper understanding and understanding of this heavy equipment, which will be used in design and construction work in the future.
, and be better able to make good use of this treasure.
"Our Taihe is currently the most powerful bridge crane in the world. It can lift 20,000 tons of weight at a time. In the past traditional production, materials needed to be stacked bit by bit from bottom to top, especially
It is the upper part of the deck of a semi-submersible drilling platform with a huge weight. It needs to be split into more than a dozen parts of about 1,000 tons, and then hoisted up for workers to perform high-altitude operations at a height of tens of meters. Taihe is
This has changed everything. We can lift more than 10,000 tons of components at one time, which greatly improves the efficiency of the project!"
"The tens of thousands of tons of power are all borne by these four ultra-high-strength concrete pillars!" the person in charge said, pointing to the red and white pillars below Taihe.
When Feng Chen saw that Taihe had four pillars, they were of different heights. The two tall ones were more than a hundred meters high. The person in charge said they were more than 110 meters tall, and the shorter ones next to them were eight.
Ninety meters, four columns support two huge beams used to load spreaders, which is where they are now.
One of the beams itself weighs more than 4,000 tons. There are more than ten winches installed inside, which is enough to lift a giant ship weighing 10,000 tons. When necessary, the two beams cooperate with each other to lift a ship weighing 20,000 tons.
Things are lifted easily.
"The weight of the crane itself plus the weight that needs to be hoisted during work is very shocking, so we have extremely high requirements for the entire column. In addition to using a six-meter-thick concrete foundation, we are also very strict about the type of concrete.
, reaching c50, the Three Gorges Dam is only c40 standard! The columns alone consume 10,000 tons of steel!"
As he spoke, the person in charge of lifting showed pride in his words.
After hearing this introduction, everyone could not help but secretly admire and admire the foresight of the leaders of Fuhai Group.