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An important factor in the life of a rope is its fatigue life. In many cases, a rope fails because of fatigue rather than the load exceeding the rope’s ultimate strength. Because of the construction of a rope, the individual wires are subjected to tension, contact, frictional bending and torsional stresses. Many rope tests have been conducted resulting in empirical formulas for simulating the fatigue life of different wire ropes. However, there has been little research to predict the fatigue life of a wire rope by a detailed stress analysis.
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Costello, G.A. (1997). A Theory of Fatigue. In: Theory of Wire Rope. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1970-5_10
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