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Strength decay of wire ropes by corrosion and wear at different surface conditions

  • Yuan-Ching Lin , Tzung-Ming Chen EMAIL logo and Wen-Fung Chang

    Wen-Fung Chang got his master’s degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His specialty is experimental construction, measurement techniques, and data analysis. Currently, he is a senior engineer in related fields. The experiments in this study were conducted by Chang.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance of different lubricated and protective conditions of wire ropes. The failure behaviors of wire ropes under different surface conditions were evaluated by using salt spray, wear, and tensile testing. The four surface conditions of the test wire ropes included naked wire and wires coated with wire rope oil, 85W/140 gear oil, and grease, respectively. The potentiodynamic polarization curves revealed that the naked wire was more easily corroded in 3.5% aqueous NaCl solution than in 5%. The results indicated that only the specimen coated with wire rope oil showed no corrosion in the 5% aqueous solution after nine days of the salt spray, and likewise this specimen was not characterized by long distance scratches in a starvation lubrication condition, causing the wire’s tensile strength underwent almost no degradation. Furthermore, the uncertain performance of grease restricted the applications of wire ropes in corrosive environment.


Corresponding author: Tzung-Ming Chen, Department of Industrial Education and Technology, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, E-mail:

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Wen-Fung Chang

Wen-Fung Chang got his master’s degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His specialty is experimental construction, measurement techniques, and data analysis. Currently, he is a senior engineer in related fields. The experiments in this study were conducted by Chang.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Published Online: 2022-06-08
Published in Print: 2022-06-27

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