Finite element analysis on the stress state of rope hoisting equipment based on the ABAQUS

Abstract

This paper presents a simulation of the steel wire rope of a certain type hoisting equipment to explore the distributions of stress and deformation in the process of lifting heavy loads. The SolidWorks software was used to establish the 3D solid model of the 6*6+WS structure of stone cross strand wire rope for a certain lifting equipment. Then the solid model of steel wire rope was imported into the ABAQUS directly through the SolidWorks and ABAQUS interface plugin, the material properties were defined, the contact pairs were established, the model was meshed, and the constraints were applied to solve the finite element model. In the normal working range of the wire rope, axial tension of 5000 N was loaded to analyse the stress and deformation distributions. The results show that the stress of wire rope presents a space spiral distribution and the stress of the lateral steel wire of the rope strand is the largest of the steel wire rope, which will provide reference for the design and improvement of the steel wire rope.