Contents
1.
INTRODUCTION 1 5
2.
BASIC COMPONENTS / 7
3. IDENTIFICATION AND
CONSTRUCTION 19
4. HANDLING AND INSTALLATION 125
Recelvmg, Inspection and Storage! 25
Wire Rope Installation
125
Unreeling and Uncoiling 1
27
SeIzmg Wire Rope /
30
Cutting Wire Rope 1
32
End Preparations / 33
End Termmations / 33
Socketing / 36
Wire Rope
Cups
/36
How to Apply Clips I 37
Wedge
Sockets / 43
Drums-Grooved / 45
Drums-Plam (Smooth) 1
46
Drums-Multiple Layers 1 47
5. OPERATION, INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF WIRE ROPE 149
Sheaves and Drums I
49
Bending Rope Over Sheaves and Drums I 51
Breakmg-m a New Wire Rope /
51
Inspection
of
Sheaves and Drums 1
55
Strength Loss
of
Rope Over Stationary Sheaves or Pins / 58
Fleet Angle / 59
Factors Affecting the
Selection
of
Wire Rope 1
59
The "X-Chart"-AbraslOn ReSIstance vs. Bending-Fatigue ResIstance 162
GUIdeline to Inspections and Reports I
63
Field Lubncation 1
84
Wire Rope EffiCiency Over Sheaves 1
86
6. PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 189
Elastic Properties
of
Wire Rope / 89
ConstructlOnal
Stretch I 89
Elastlc Stretch 190
Metallic Areas
of
1 mch rope - Table
18
/
91
DesIgn Factors 1
93
Breakmg Force Tables / 93
APPENDICES
A Ordermg, Stofmg and Unreeling Wire Rope 1118
B Wire Rope Fittings
1120
C Shlppmg Reel Capacity /
131
D Glossary
of
Wire Rope Terms / 138
E Block TWIsting / 142
F ISO Nomenclature 1147
G
H
I
ConverSlOn Factors / 148
Wire Rope and Wire Rope Sling Safety Bulletm 1153
Wire Rope InspectlOn Form / 160
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