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Overhead service crane for matrix canister exchange 2 tonne rail mounted 15 tonne gantry 15 tonne gantry... 

FIG. 21-53 Example of gantry-type robot having 4 axes which would he used for palletizing cartons or bags. Courtesy of C [Pg.1975]

Care must also be taken where large live loading are concerned such as gantry cranes, hoists, materials handling, etc. to ensure that structural and safety implications are properly addressed during both design and construction stages. 

Its best use is for bridges, gantries, conveyor-belt steelwork, etc., where the relatively drab, matte appearance can be tolerated. The Department of Transport uses this material on inland motorway bridges, and has found that, if applied to a correctly prepared and primed surface, it can be substantially maintenance-free for 20 years. 

Figure 7 In one example of a dual-energy process, where Gantry denotes the rotating disk, the X-ray tuhe voltage swings between 180 and 100 kV, with peaks and valleys synchronized, respectively, with integral and half-integral disk-rotation angles.

If fiber optics are going to be nsed, what physical distances are involved, and what civil engineering costs are implied (for gantry, cable tray, condnit, tnnneling etc) ... 

Container ships have guides in the hold and on deck which hold boxlike containers or tanks. The tank is latched to a trailer chassis and hauled to shipside. A movable gantry, sometimes permanently installed on the ship, hoists the tank from the trailer and lowers it into the guides on the ship. This system achieves large savings in labor, but its application is sometimes hmited by lack of agreement between ship operators and unions. 

Specimen to be scanned, size appropriate to scanner gantry. 

The major steps involved were first the move from 200-kV x-rays to cobalt-60 and then to modern electron linear accelerators providing x-ray beams of about 20 MV (and electrons when needed for some patients). Improvements in the beam penetration were, in general, combined with improvements in beam delivery systems, e.g., isocentric gantries, variable collimators, later on multileaf collimators, etc. 

Of course, like with photons, several intersecting proton beams can be used in order to further improve the final dose distribution. Fixed beams or an isocentric gantry can be used. 

Figure 27 Isocentric gantry for irradiation of the PTV from any direction. The use of an isocentric gantry for carbon-ion therapy requires huge and expensive magnets. (From Ref. 43.)...

A robotic system enables mobility of the reactors. The components of a robotic system include (i) a manipulator or end effector (ii) a controller and (iii) robot arms. Robots may also be mounted as a stationary platform, a gantry mechanism where the robot is suspended from a bridge-like frame, or on a linear track drive. A variety of robots exist for both laboratory and industrial use [75,76], Laboratory robots are generally dedicated to either liquid handling or pick-and-place operations. 

The process is installed in buildings called canyons, where there are rows of concrete shielded cells serviced by overhead gantry cranes for remote replacement and servicing of valves, pumps, piping, and other equipment. Penetrations through the cell walls are offset to prevent radiation from streaming through. Some equipment is located in cells equipped with windows, TV cameras, and manipulators. Cells for remote repair of the equipment may be similarly equipped. 

The specialized vessel is to be equipped with -a 50-t full gantry crane to move TK-18 (TUK-108) casks between the reloading post and cargo holds and -a 18-t-capacity rotary crane to load packages into the vessel from the shore/another vessel. If necessary, reinforced concrete 100-t casks TUK-114 could be reloaded using on-shore facilities. 

Transport and management equipment of the storage complex comprises a gantry crane to extract transportation cask (TUK) from railcar and place it inside a reloading chamber. Transfer of the car truck and the shielding box from one rail track to another is also performed using this crane. 

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