Diseño de cimentaciones para un sistema de enfriamiento y mesa de carga en caliente sometida a fuerzas dinámicas para la empresa NOVACERO S.A. en Planta Lasso

Abstract

The company NOVACERO S.A. it is one of the largest producers of steel elements in the country. At NOVACERO Plant in Lasso, a wide variety of commercial products such rods, profiles, wire rod, among others, are constantly manufactured. In recent years, due to their high demand in the national market, they have seen the need to increase their production in order to meet market requirements and quality standards that characterize them. Because of this, they request the Civil Engineering career of the Salesian Polytechnic University through this titling work to elaborate a foundation design of a cooling system and a hot load table of raw material (billets) that will allow them to streamline processes and improve its production by a large percentage. One of the important elements in this work is the correct design of the foundations, since through these the structures transmit their loads to them, which subsequently transfer them to the floor. However, companies like NOVACERO carry out manufacturing processes in an automated way using machinery for their execution. Due to all the previous, additional conditions for the design of the foundations must be analyzed since they are industrial machines that generate dynamic loads, for which new methodologies have had to be used to achieve the optimal design of this type of foundations. The present study shows the selection of the type of foundation, the calculation and design of the foundation creating an Excel program where the dynamic loads, current standards and soil properties involved in its design will be considered and finally, will proceed to the Verification of the results through a model previously developed in a commercial software. The project concludes with the preparation of the foundation blueprints that will support the new machinery and complement the rolling mill used in NOVACERO plant. The equipment will consist of a cooling system or galloping cooling table for billets and a billet hot load table system.