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The non-destructive tests (NDT) of the steel wire ropes put on the crane pulley blocks comprise more than a half of our NDT services. The intensive utilization of cranes often leads to critical situations endangering health and safety at work. The operators are forced to provide safety use of the cranes due to new cranes constructions, new construction of the block pulley and put on the new steel wire rope constructions. The NDT tests of the crane steel wire ropes are coordinate by the Standard ISO 4309. We have experienced only the crane steel wire ropes with an individual wire rope core during our NDT tests so far. The visual NDT test usually used is ineffective to the steel wire ropes with this construction. Based on our previous experience it can be confirmed that surface ruptures are produced after the disintegration of wires inside of a rope; it often leads to the rope abruption during its operation. The reduction of the pulley block dimensions often leads to the problem of the multi-axis rope bending. This kind of the rope line in the pulley block causes the increase of the fretting fatigue of the wires and the rope strands. The same type of the stress is created when the dead ends of the rope are badly constructed.

Mine hoisting KOEPPE system or friction hoist winch work with traction pulley, the pulley rim grooves are lined. Lining has to provide a higher friction coefficient between the rope and the traction pulley. The constructors of mine hoisting machines require from the manufacturers a guaranteed appropriate and stabile value of a friction coefficient at different pressures between a rope and a friction lining under different external conditions (drought, moisture, icing, etc.). The paper presents processed measurements performed on the six samples of the friction lining (G1-G6) made of rubber and the sample of the standard used friction lining (K25). The samples (G1-G6) differ in the chemical composition of the rubber. Due to the confidentiality of the material composition of the friction linings the hardness of the lining material as a discriminator was chosen. The measured values of the friction coefficient of the rubber friction lining samples were compared with the values of the friction coefficient of the friction lining (K25) usually mounted on friction lining pulley.

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