The ship up to slipway and launch by air-bags
is a new technology of having good prospect in the future;
it overcomes disadvantage of the capacity of repairing and
shipbuilding by medium and small ship factories was enslaved
to fixed type slipway, and developed to flexible and soft
launch technology nowadays; it has many obvious advantages,
such as operator saving, time saving, labor saving, investment
saving, motive and flexible, safe and reliable, and has obvious
integrated economic benefit.
Because of adopting new style and high strength air-bags,
it supplies technical safeguard for breaking through the
launch of 10.000 tons ships.
This kind of high pressure air-bags are developed responded
to the request of large ship factories. In the process of
vertical launch, for an instant floating of tails, the head
bracket of large ships was damaged because of centralized
under stress; it is a valuable grouping measure to use the
buffer action of air-bags distortion for protecting the
ships were not damaged.
In Oct. 8, 2003, Nanshagang District, dock construction
project (CHEC Guangzhou Port Construction Co., Ltd.) use
superhigh pressure air-bags, to successful move the largest
and heaviest dock caissons (17.84m long, 14m wide and 18.9m
high, each looks like a 6 floors high building that contain
267.6 square meters and the weight is 2212 tons) in South
China to the destination. Use this technology not only shorten
the time limit of the project, but also save 4/5 budget
fund of project. There are no examples of using air-bags
conveying method to convey these busters before in the country.
Many medias such as Guangzhou Daily, Nanfang Daily, Nanfang
City Newspaper, Yangcheng Evening Newspaper, Yuegang Information
Daily, Guangzhou TV station, and Guangdong TV report this
event.
At the beginning of May 2005, in dock construction of Guangxi
Fangcheng port, the Fangcheng port project department of
CHEC Guangzhou Port Construction Co., Ltd. adopted air-bags
movement craftworks, successfully move 11 biggest cylinder
caisson that more than 2900 tons, and set a record of adopting
air-bags movement super sized cylinder project in world
dock and harbor construction history.
The biggest cable stayed bridge in the world--Sutong
Bridge has already began to construction; The keypoint of
this project is lifting and movement of large steel overhead
bin (about 3200 tons); The construction scheme finally would
adopt large diameter and superhigh pressure air-bags construction
to smoothly finish project difficulties.