Container Top Side Beam With Vertical Web Plate for Impact Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing square-tube top side beams in containers provide inadequate protection against external impacts, leading to potential puncturing of the side plates and damage to goods during transportation, reducing the overall use efficiency of the container.
Innovation Solution
A top side beam with a vertically extending web plate that increases the vertical height to 100-400 mm, featuring various structural configurations such as C, Z, S, or I shapes, with optional flanges and stiffeners to enhance strength and resistance to impacts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a square-tube top side beam structure is used, then the manufacturing is simple and cost is low, but the protection capability against external impacts is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The top side beam is divided into multiple functional parts: a vertical web plate for impact resistance, horizontal flanges for structural connection, and reinforced sections. This segmentation allows each part to specialize in specific functions, improving overall protection capability while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through modular construction
Solution Approach 2:
The top side beam employs a composite structure combining vertical web plates with horizontal flanges, creating a composite beam system that integrates the strengths of different structural elements. The web plate provides vertical impact resistance while flanges provide horizontal stability, achieving enhanced protection without excessive complexity
2Strength
If the vertical height of top side beam is increased to above 100 mm, then the protection function is improved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The top side beam design incorporates dynamic load distribution through its vertical web plate structure, which is optimized to handle impact forces efficiently. The beam's geometry and thickness are dynamically adjusted along its height to provide maximum protection where needed while simplifying manufacturing in less critical areas
Solution Approach 2:
The vertical height parameter of the top side beam is increased to above 100 mm, and the web plate thickness is optimized to balance protection function with manufacturing feasibility. By carefully selecting and adjusting these parameters, the design achieves enhanced protection capability while maintaining reasonable manufacturing complexity
3Ease of manufacture
If the top side beam structure is simplified, then the production cost is reduced, but the resistance to external forces is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
Rather than uniformly thickening the entire top side beam structure, the design applies reinforcement selectively to critical areas where external forces are most likely to cause damage. The web plate and flange connections are strengthened while other less critical sections maintain simpler, lower-cost construction
Solution Approach 2:
The top side beam exhibits local quality variations with different sections having different thicknesses and reinforcement levels. The vertical web plate and connection areas have enhanced properties for force resistance, while other sections use simpler construction, achieving reliable protection at reduced production cost
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AI summary
The utility model discloses a top side beam of a container, which has a web plate that extends vertically along a height direction of the container, to increase a vertical height of the top side beam to above 100 mm. The utility model further discloses a container having the top side beam according to the utility model. The top side beam according to the utility model can effectively resist external impact, and it has a good protection function to prevent the container from being damaged by an external force and then improve the overall strength of the container, thereby avoiding that the container body is punctured and ensuring integrity and security of goods in the container. In addition, the top side beam of the container according to the utility model has a simple structure, is easy to manufacture, and facilitates convenient modification of the container. The container according to the utility model has high strength, great capability of resisting external impact, good protection performance, a long service life and an economic maintenance cost.