Download the e-book detailing the inspection and discard standards of steel wire rope for drilling applications.

The Steel Wire Rope: Inspection & Discard Standards Ebook

Wire ropes are used in exploration drilling as hoist ropes, wireline retrieval ropes and as pulldown and pullback ropes. In all of these cases, the ropes work extremely hard! As the rope is used abrasive wear and fatigue breaks cause a loss of metallic cross-section which results in the rapid decrease of the breaking strength of the rope, which brings the rope to the end of its service life. The challenge is to determine when a particular rope has reached the end of its service life and should be discarded. In order to determine this, it is important to understand how wire ropes wear, the defects that occur and how best to identify these.

This ebook covers wire rope wear and defects, wire rope discard standards, wire rope inspection.