The increasing requirements for safety, reliability and quality mean that the testing of steel ropes has become an inseparable element in their production and operation stages. The basic method used in testing has become the magnetic testing method of steel ropes (MTR). Despite the extensively developed knowledge, equipment, and methods of analysing diagnostic signals, difficult to access places and the ends of steel ropes are not fully covered by diagnostics. Visual inspection, which is one of the basic methods of non-destructive testing in this area of ropes, has many limitations. This area of magnetic defectoscopy is a place where new solutions and structures for testing steel ropes are created. The article presents an example of solutions used for diagnostics in places with difficult access. A new concept of a diagnostic system for magnetic testing of ropes in these sections is described. The results of initial laboratory verification measurements of the new solution are also presented.
The increasing requirements for safety, reliability and quality mean that the testing of steel ropes has become an inseparable element in their production and operation stages. The basic method used in testing has become the magnetic testing method of steel ropes (MTR). Despite the extensively developed knowledge, equipment, and methods of analysing diagnostic signals, difficult to access places and the ends of steel ropes are not fully covered by diagnostics. Visual inspection, which is one of the basic methods of non-destructive testing in this area of ropes, has many limitations. This area of magnetic defectoscopy is a place where new solutions and structures for testing steel ropes are created. The article presents an example of solutions used for diagnostics in places with difficult access. A new concept of a diagnostic system for magnetic testing of ropes in these sections is described. The results of initial laboratory verification measurements of the new solution are also presented.
