Volume B30.18 includes provisions that apply to the construction, installation, operation, inpsection, and maintenance of hand-powered and power-driven overhead and gantry cranes that have a top or under running multiple girder bridge with a vertically guided carriage, with or without a top or under running trolley. The requirements included in this volume also apply to stacker cranes having the same fundamental characteristics, such as cantilever gantry and semi-gantry stacker cranes.
ASME B30.18-2004 history
2021ASME B30.18-2021 Stacker Cranes (Top or Under Running Bridge, Multiple Girder With Top or Under Running Trolley Hoist)
2016ASME B30.18-2016 Stacker Cranes (Top or Under Running Bridge, Multiple Girder with Top or Under Running Trolley Hoist)
2011ASME B30.18-2011 Stacker Cranes (Top or Under Running Bridge, Multiple Girder with Top or Under Running Trolley Hoist)
2004ASME B30.18-2004 Stacker Cranes (Top or Under Running Bridge, Multiple Girder with Top or Under Running Trolley Hoist)
1998ASME B30.18-1998 Stacker Cranes (Top Or Under Running Bridge Multiple Girder With Top Or Under Running Trolley Hoist)
1993ASME B30.18-1993 Stacker cranes (top or under running bridge, multiple girder with top or under running trolley hoist)