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Failure of crane wire rope

✍ Scribed by M. Torkar; B. Arzenšek

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
534 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
1350-6307

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✦ Synopsis

A failure analysis of a broken multi strand wire rope from a crane was performed. The fracture of the steel wires in the wire rope showed characteristics of fatigue. On the wire surface were observed decarburised cracks which act as initiation sites for fatigue crack propagation during the application of the wire rope. The main reasons for the failure of the wire rope were fatigue and poor inspection.

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