Rope Technology

Discard Criteria

➜ Correct allocation of our verope® special wire ropes for determining the replacement state based on visible wire breaks according to ISO 4309.

The International Standard ISO 4309 – “Cranes – Wire ropes – Care and maintenance, inspection and discard”, 4th edition 08/2010- provides comprehensive information. A frequent discard criterion, among many others discussed in detail by the standard, is the number of visible broken wires. Depending on the rope construction, categorized by the Rope Category Number RCN acc. to standard’s annex G, the relevant crane classification M1 to M8 and given system such as a single- or multi-layer drum, the discard criteria can be determined by the number of visible broken wires. 

This means besides the rope construction it is also the relevant machine used its design and classification that detemines the discard criteria. Therefore it is no longer possible to give a general number of visible broken 

wires for a given rope construction, signaling discard. To give you the correct allocation of your verope® special wire rope to this International Standard ISO 4309, please find below the respective classification of the “Rope Category Number RCN”. Please note that within a rope construction its RCN-number may change depending on rope’s nominal diameter. 

With this information, you can now determine in compliance with the actual type of your application the number of visible broken wires, signaling discard of the rope. 

If you have any further questions regarding discard, please don’t hesitate to contact us. 

We are happy to assist you! 

Rotation-resistant ropes

Rotation-resistant ropes

Note

  • Please note that a counted broken wire always has two ends.
  • Shall be applied exclusively to those sections of rope running only over steel sheaves and/or spooling on a single-layer drum. For single-layer spooling ordinary (regular) lay ropes have to be used. The wire breaks are randomly distributed.
  • Shall be applied exclusively to those sections of rope spooling on a multi-layer drum.
  • The values are valid only in conjunction with footnote 3 and apply to deterioration that occurs at the crossover zones and interference between wraps due to fleet angle effects. Note: These values do not apply to those sections of rope running only over sheaves but do not spool on the multi-layer drum!
  • d = nominal rope diameter
  • Twice the number of broken wires listed may be applied to ropes on mechanisms whose classification is known to be M5 to M8.