Inspection of wire ropes in tapered sockets

Author: J. Kwaśniewski

Presently there are no totally reliable methods of inspecting wire rope ends in tapered sockets.

Magnetic testing techniques were applied hitherto and certain rope sections were never inspected, as the measuring head could not be moved right along to the rope termination.

A new measuring instrument is presented in the paper.

It offers a unique possibility of investigating rope end sections in engineering structures where ropes act as structural members, such as those widely found in underground and open-cast mining sectors.