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My steel wire rope broke spontaneously
In my role as a steel wire rope consultant at Mennens, I’m regularly called by organizations for help and advice. ‘Our wire rope broke spontaneously’ is often what they tell me. When I visit them to find out the cause, it usually turns out not to be so spontaneous after all.
Each bend halves the service life of a steel wire rope
Herr Prof (a.D.) Dr.-Ing. Klaus Feyrer has developed a formula to approximate the theoretical lifetime of a steel cable. The bottom line is: as a result of bending, the service life of a steel wire rope is halved.
