A Review of Non-Destructive Damage Detection Methods for Steel Wire Ropes

Ping Zhou,Xin Ding,Gongbo Zhou,Zhencai Zhu,Zhenzhi He,Chaoquan Tang

doi:10.3390/app9132771

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Abstract

As an important load-bearing component, steel wire ropes (WRs) are widely used in complex systems such as mine hoists, cranes, ropeways, elevators, oil rigs, and cable-stayed bridges. Non-destructive damage detection for WRs is an important way to assess damage states to guarantee WR’s reliability and safety. With intelligent sensors, signal processing, and pattern recognition technology developing rapidly, this field has made great progress. However, there is a lack of a systematic review on technologies or methods introduced and employed, as well as research summaries and prospects in recent years. In order to bridge this gap, and to promote the development of non-destructive detection technology for WRs, we present an overview of non-destructive damage detection research of WRs and discuss the core issues on this topic in this paper. First, the WRs’ damage type is introduced, and its causes are explained. Then, we summarize several main non-destructive detection methods for WRs, including electromagnetic detection method, optical detection method, ultrasonic guided wave detection method, and acoustic emission detection method. Finally, a prospect is put forward. Based on the review of papers, we provide insight about the future of the non-destructive damage detection methods for steel WRs to a certain extent.

Highlights

Steel wire rope was invented in 1834
Steel wire ropes will be damaged in various forms when used, which will reduce the strength of the WRs and pose a potential threat to the system safety
local flaw damage type (LF) type refers to the damage locally relaxation, kinking, bending, and strand breakage) to the original generated in the WR, mainly including internal structure,and whichexternal acceleratesbreakage, the scrap. corrosion pit, and deep wear of steel wire, characterized by a sudden decrease in the metallic cross-sectional area of the WR; loss of metallic cross-sectional area type (LMA)