Comparative study of the service life of a central core and a helical strand constituting the same rope

Failure Analysis of Wire Ropes Used in Multi-Wire Machines for Cutting Blocks of Stone

“…Notwithstanding there are many literature references on the study of the damage of wire ropes, few research references can be found, as far as the author knows, that would allow to understand their structural behavior in terms of damage or failure analyses. [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] In 4 Authors report a study on the diamond wire cutting of concrete materials. Wire cutting with diamond technique was used in the United States until the early 1980s and allowed to cut reinforced concrete structures, regardless of thickness and reinforcement content.…”

“…Mechanics of cutting procedure is deepened and mechanical simulation and optimization models of the wires with diamond beads are proposed. Many references are available on the study of wire ropes without diamond beads; [8][9][10][11] such references allow to understand the mechanisms of failure in case of absence of the beads: unfortunately, the Author of this paper found that the structural fatigue and corrosion-contactfatigue behavior of the wire rope is highly influenced by the presence of the diamond beads.…”