Documents Me 522 Wire Rope Lecture 10-11

ALL ABOUT WIRE ROPES WHAT ARE WIRE ROPES? Are intricate vital machine elements that are used to transmit FORCES or MOTION. Or are simply used to support WEIGHTS/ LOADS. THEIR…

Documents Wire Rope Failure Case Studies

Background  A wire rope broke while lifting a load of reinforcing steel estimated to weigh 2.5 - 3 tonnes. The precise sequence of events leading to the failure were not…