Report of Investigations 9487: A Data Acquisition and Analysis System for Nondestructive Testing of Wire Rope

Details

• Journal Article:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9487
• Personal Author:
  Ruff, Todd M.
• Description:
  Current methods of inspecting wire rope for broken wires or excessive wear include visual inspection, physical measurements of rope diameter, and electromagnetic nondestructive testing (NDT). An off-the-shelf data acquisition and analysis system was tested in a U.S. Bureau of Mines laboratory using a continuous loop of wire rope containing fabricated flaws. The test rope was run through a commercially available NDT instrument. The output of the instrument, normally connected to a paper strip chart recorder, was digitized and analyzed with a personal computer. These initial tests were successful in showing that the use of a computer can improve current methods of NDT waveform collection and analysis. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Electromagnetic Phenomena Mining Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Computer-applications; Mine-safety; Software; Wire-rope; Nondestructive-tests; Electromagnetic-fields
• Source:
  Spokane, WA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, RI 9487, 1993 Jan; :1-7
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRC - Spokane Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  12 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10012226
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB94-129335
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2eef91b8ca497cb4f2154d2c0b5a46046d794319cb09a456a817cbadaea37ee326d59d671e2741286645b53235237d7b81fede0d9341df9989f7a0961ca7b520
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10035/cdc_10035_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.77 MB ]