Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
In shear testing of indented cables it has been found that indented cables peak share load failures behave contrary to the normal failure behaviour. The gradual strength loss with each individual wire failure in an indented cable strand may not lead to subsequent peak shear failure of the remaining strands in decline. This failure behaviour is characteristic of indented cables and occurs irrespective of the test method used (single shear or double shear test). Accordingly in this study all wires in a tested cable strand were instrumented with strain gauges. Each instrumented wire was individually colour coded to assist in determining the location of the wires in the strand circumference with respect to the direction of shear. The location of wires in the perimeter was identified at the sheared joint surface areas. During testing of the cable using a circular MKIV double shear apparatus (Naj Aziz DS Box) the initialisation of wire failure was identified by the strain gauge readings. This data found that the wires failing early were located on the upper segment of the bent strand during shearing process, indicating that the indentations introduced stress concentration spots on the wire, causing the strand wires to fail prematurely with less tolerance to bending than smooth wired cable.
Publication Details
Guanyu Yang, Saman Khaleghparast, Naj Aziz, Jan Nemcik and Travis Marshall, Why the peak shear load of indented cables increases with increased wire failures?, in Naj Aziz and Bob Kininmonth (eds.), Proceedings of the 2019 Coal Operators Conference, Mining Engineering, University of Wollongong, 18-20 February 2019, 162-170.