Condition monitoring of steel wire ropes

2018

Master's thesis Mechatronics MAS500 - University of Agder 2018 By utilising the measurements from a commercial acoustic emission sensor system, magnetic tester and a camera system, conducted during four separate simple bending fatigue tests of steel wire ropes (SWR), several measurable quantities of the SWR which indicate deterioration were identi ed. Based on the measurements of a commercial acoustic emission sensor system of one of the tests in this thesis, the fatigue process of a SWRs in a simple bending test is three-phase, with a relatively long rstand second phase, showing little- and steady increase in activity, respectively, followed by a shorter phase with a ramp up of activity. T…