Complete Contractor and Industrial Supplier • Sling and Rigging Specialist Since 1930 Visit us online at www.hanessupply.com SECTION INDEX 1 SECTION 1 W i r e Wire Rope R o p e AIRCRAFT WIRE ROPE 101 WIRE ROPE Cable .......................................................1-18 Abrasion and Bending ..............................1-4 7-Strand ...................................................1-16 Bridge Rope ............................................1-16 BRIDGE Block Twisting .......................................1-4–5 Cable .................................................1-18–20 Wire Rope ................................................1-16 Calculating Drum Capacity ........................1-8 Common Abuses .......................................1-5 Corrosion Resistant .................................1-17 CABLE Common Causes of Failure .......................1-6 Drag .........................................................1-13 Aircraft .....................................................1-18 Conversion Tables Metric/English .............1-8 Electrical Construction ............................1-14 Alloy .........................................................1-20 Cross Sections (Illustrations) ....................1-2 Elevator ...................................................1-14 Coated .....................................................1-20 Design and Construction ...........................1-1 Flattened Strand ......................................1-12 Stainless Steel .........................................1-19 Glossary ............................................1-21–22 Galvanized Structural Strand ..................1-16 DRAG Inspection ..................................................1-3 Galvanized Wire Strand ...........................1-12 Rope ........................................................1-13 Installation .................................................1-7 General Purpose .....................................1-10 Lay of Wire Rope ......................................1-1 Herringbone .............................................1-13 DRILLING AND WELL WIRE ROPE .........1-15 Lubrication .................................................1-7 High Performance ....................................1-12 ELEVATOR Matching Rope to Sheave and Drum ....1-7–8 Logging ....................................................1-15 Wire Rope ................................................1-14 Matching Sheave Groove to Rope ............1-8 Marine Application ...................................1-14 Oil/Gas Drilling ........................................1-15 FLATTENED STRAND WIRE ROPE .........1-12 Nominal Strength ......................................1-3 Operating ...................................................1-7 Plastic Filled Valley ..................................1-17 HERRINGBONE Physical Properties ....................................1-6 Rotation Resistant ...................................1-11 Wire Rope ................................................1-13 Rope Strength Design Factors ..................1-4 Stainless ..................................................1-19 LOGGING Selection Guide .........................................1-6 Strand Hoist .............................................1-13 Wire Rope ................................................1-15 Sheave Inspection .....................................1-3 Surface Mining ........................................1-13 Weights .....................................................1-3 Swage ......................................................1-15 METRIC/ENGLISH What Wire Rope Is... .................................1-1 Tower Power ............................................1-11 Conversion Tables .....................................1-8 Wire Grades ..............................................1-1 Tramway ..................................................1-14 MINING AND EXCAVATION WIRE ROPE .1-13 Underground Mining ................................1-14 Well Service ............................................1-15 MINING AND TRAMWAY WIRE ROPE .....1-14 WIRE ROPE, GENERAL PURPOSE ROTATION 6 x 7 Classification ..................................1-10 Resistant Wire Rope ................................1-11 6 x 19 Classification ................................1-10 STAINLESS 6 x 19 Seale Steel Cable ..............................................1-19 6 x 21 Filler Wire STRAND 6 x 25 Filler Wire Hoist Wire Rope ......................................1-13 6 x 26 Warrington Seale 6 x 31 Warrington Seal SWAGED 6 x 36 Warrington Seale Wire Rope ................................................ -15 1 6 x 37 Classification ................................1-10 TOWER CRANE 6 x 41 Seale Filler Wire Wire Rope ................................................1-11 6 x 41 Warrington Seale 6 x 49 Seale Warrington Seale WWW.HANESSUPPLY.COM 1-A Complete Contractor and Industrial Supplier • Sling and Rigging Specialist Since 1930 Visit us online at www.hanessupply.com 1 NOTES e p o R e r i W 1-B WWW.HANESSUPPLY.COM Complete Contractor and Industrial Supplier • Sling and Rigging Specialist Since 1930 Visit us online at www.hanessupply.com Wire Rope 1 Wire Rope 101 W i r e What Wire Rope Is... Wire Rope Design & Construction R A wire rope is a piece of flexible, multi- Core Strand Wire ropes are composed of independent parts–wires, strands and o p wired, stranded machinery made of many cores-that continuously interact with each other during service. e precision parts. Wire rope engineers design those parts in differing steel grades, Usually a wire rope consists of a core finishes and a variety of constructions to attain the best balance of member, around which a number of multi- strength, abrasion resistance, crush resistance, bending fatigue wired strands are “laid” or helically bent. resistance and corrosion resistance for each application. To select the best wire rope for each application, one must know the There are two general types of cores for required performance characteristics for the job and enough about wire wire rope - fiber cores an wire cores. The rope design to select the optimum combination of wire rope properties. fiber core may be made from natural or The following information is presented as a basic guide. Hanes Supply synthetic fibers. The wire core can be an engineers and field service specialists are available to provide more Independent Wire Rope Core (IWRC), or specific recommendations. a Strand Core (SC). The purpose of the core is to provide Wire Strand Constructions support and maintain the position of the Strands are designed with various combinations of wires and wire sizes to outer strands during operation. produce the desired resistance to fatigue and abrasion. Generally, a small Any number of multi-wired strands may number of large wires will be more abrasion resistant and less fatigue be laid around the core. The most popular resistant than a large number of small wires. arrangement is six strands around the core, as this combination gives the best Single Size balance. The basic strand construction has wires of the same size The number of wires per strand may wound around a center. vary from 3 to 91, with the majority of wire Wire Rope ropes failing into the 7-wire, 19-wire, or 37- wire strand categories. Seale The “lays” of Wire Rope Large outer wires with the same number of smaller inner wires around a core wire. Provides excellent abrasion “Lay” of a wire rope is simply a description of the way wires and strands resistance but less fatigue resistance. When used with are placed during construction. Right lay and left lay refer to the direction an IWRC, it offers excellent crush resistance over drums. of strands. Right lay means that the strands pass from left to right across the rope. Left lay means just the opposite: strands pass from right to left. Regular lay and lang lay describe the way wires are placed within each Filler Wire strand. Regular lay means that wires in the strands are laid opposite in Small wires fill spaces between large wires to produce direction to the lay of the strands. Lang lay means that wires are laid in crush resistance and a good balance of strength, the same direction as the lay of the strands. flexibility and resistance to abrasion. Most of the wire rope used is right lay, regular lay. This specification has the widest range of applications and meets the requirements of most Warrington equipment. In fact, other lay specifica - Outer layer of alternately large and small wires provides tions are considered exceptions and Left Lay REGULAR LAY good flexibility and strength but low abrasion and crush must be requested when ordering. resistance. Here are some exceptions Lang lay is recommended for many Many commonly used wire ropes use combinations of these basic excavating, construction, and mining constructions. applications, including draglines, hoist lines, dredgelines and other similar Left Lay LANG LAY lines. Here's why: Lang lay ropes are more flexible than regular lay ropes. They also have greater wearing sur - face per wire than regular lay ropes. Where properly recommended, installed and used, lang lay ropes can be used to greater advantage than Right Alternate Lay Seale Filler Wire Filler Wire Seale Warrington Seale Seale Warrington Seale regular lay ropes. However, lang lay ropes are more susceptible to the Multiple Operation abuses of bending over small diame - One of the above strand designs may be covered ter sheaves, pinching in undersize with one or more layers of uniform-sized wires. sheave grooves,