"With a load capacity of more than 50,000 tons, this is the world's most powerful flatbed truck, is it Chinese?"
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As a tool for pulling goods, flatbed trucks can be used not only to haul light goods such as vegetables and small commodities in the market, but also to transport heavy equipment, ships, and even aircraft carriers.
However, in the field of logistics, the mainland's flatbed trucks do not have an advantage in the world, and many of the mainland's giant ships or bridge parts are transported remotely by foreign flatbed trucks, and are only pulled away by the mainland's flatbed trucks after being unloaded on the mainland.
But this situation has changed dramatically recently, and a new type of flatbed truck produced on the mainland with a load capacity of more than 50,000 tons has set a world record.
1. Why doesn't the mainland produce this kind of flatbed?
Why would the mainland produce such a flatbed truck with a load capacity of more than 50,000 tons, but it has not been seen before?
The load capacity of the flatbed truck is generally about 30 tons, even if it is a large-scale platform truck, there are only dozens of wheels, the load capacity is dozens of tons, and the maximum load capacity can only reach more than 1,000 tons.
The flatbed truck with the most wheels generally does not exceed 200 wheels, so no matter how many wheels there are, the load capacity cannot be increased to more than 50,000 tons.
The mainland's flatbed trucks have always been at the highest end of the world, but it is only at this level, why not go beyond this range and produce more than 50,000 tons of flatbed trucks?
This also needs to be analyzed from the level of development in many fields, including flatbed trucks, the mainland's development level in the industrial field is not high, especially in the development of science and technology, industrial technology, are dependent on the "imported" technology.
This has led to the mainland being in a passive position in the research and development of some core technologies, and only in some low-end fields can the mainland's strength be shown.
For this reason, there has been no breakthrough in the mainland's flatbed truck technology, and the mainland will only imitate it after other countries have developed new flatbed trucks.
Moreover, the technical level of the mainland in the flatbed car is not high enough, so after the imitation of the flatbed, the load capacity and the number of wheels of the flatbed truck produced are different from the original model, and even inferior to the performance of the original model.
Therefore, the mainland flatbed truck manufacturers have not produced ultra-large flatbed trucks with many wheels, so the parts of giant ships or bridges in the mainland are transported by flatbed trucks in other countries.
However, this does not mean that the mainland's level of scientific and technological development has not surpassed that of other countries, but that the mainland lacks one thing, that is, "experience."
After the mainland imitated some flatbed trucks, the mainland's researchers improved the performance of the flatbed through continuous research and experiments, but they have not produced super-large flatbed trucks.
2. Large flatbed trucks at sea.
The transportation distance of ships at sea is much larger than that of vehicles on land, so the flatbed trucks at sea are larger than those on land to meet the needs of long-distance transportation of giant ships.
After the mainland developed the giant ship, there were also some problems in the long-distance transportation of the giant ship, and it was impossible to transport the giant ship to the designated place remotely by the flatbed truck on land.
Therefore, the mainland's flatbed truck has become a "burden" to a certain extent, and the reason why it is called "cumbersome" is not that the mainland's flatbed truck is not strong enough, but that the mainland's flatbed truck is not up to this task, so it can only be completed by introducing methods to complete the transportation task of giant ships.
The United States has a kind of heavy-duty flatbed truck, with a load capacity of 45,000 tons and more than 1,000 wheels.
The flatbed truck in the United States is imitated by the technology of the mainland, but because the technical level of the mainland is not high enough, after the imitation of the giant flatbed, the load capacity reaches 40,000 tons, but it cannot break through this value.
The mainland's giant ships were transported long-distance through American flatbed trucks, and after some twists and turns, the mainland's giant ships were finally transported to the designated place for long distances, which also became an exchange between the two countries in the field of industrial technology.
3. The manufacture of giant flatbed trucks.
The continent's giant ships were finally transported to the designated location over long distances, but this was only the first step taken by the continent, in order to raise the continent's flatbed long-distance transportation capacity to a higher level, continental's engineers began to develop a new type of giant flatbed truck.
The construction of a giant flatbed is a bit simpler than that of a giant ship, but it is just as complex, and the construction of a giant flatbed requires engineers from mainland China to upgrade the number of wheels, as well as improve the handling of the giant flatbed.
The number of wheels of the giant flatbed is generally about 200, and the engineers also decide according to the load capacity of the giant flatbed, and the wheels of the giant flatbed should be as many as possible, so as to spread the center of gravity of the giant vehicle, reduce the tire load, and also improve the load capacity of the giant flatbed.
In order to increase the load capacity of the giant vehicle, the engineers gradually increased the number of wheels, and finally through a series of improvements, they built a giant flatbed truck with 1,152 wheels.
The number of wheels of the giant flatbed truck is not only large, but also the wheels need to be grouped so that they can be controlled more flexibly, and the engineers control the vehicle through the computer, and the wheels of the giant flatbed can be adjusted accordingly according to the instructions of the computer.
Not only that, the length of the giant flatbed truck can also be adjusted accordingly according to the size of the giant ship or bridge parts being transported, so as to better meet the transportation needs and reduce the damage to the road surface.
The biggest feature of the giant flatbed is that there are many "wheels", but for the wheels of the giant flatbed, its own carrying capacity is also limited, so the load capacity of the giant flatbed is also limited.
The load capacity of the giant flatbed is still far less than the weight of the giant ship, but through the power of the giant flatbed, the giant ship can be pulled back into the water, but the number of wheels of the giant flatbed is large, and it will become very difficult to control.
The length of the giant flatbed was also not suitable for long-distance transportation, so it was still necessary for the giant ship to carry out long-distance transportation, and after some discussion, it was finally decided to disassemble the wheels of the giant flatbed truck, so that the giant flatbed truck was only left with 200 wheels.
After reducing the number of wheels on the Giant Flatbed, the handling of the Giant Flatbed has been greatly improved, and the length of the Giant Flatbed has also been changed to make the Giant Flatbed more flexible.
epilogue
The mainland's giant flatbed truck has finally been manufactured, which is also a breakthrough in the industrial field of the mainland, and the mainland's scientific and technological development level is gradually improving, which can produce a giant flatbed truck with a large load capacity, which also has a very important contribution to the development of the mainland.
The giant flatbed truck will become a "trump card" of the mainland, which can not only transport giant ships, but also transport large-scale engineering equipment, and at the same time improve the speed and efficiency of the mainland's engineering construction, and also drive the development of the mainland's construction machinery industry.