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Article

Laboratory Device Detecting Tensile Forces in the Rope and Coefficient of Friction in the Rope Sheave Groove

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Department of Machine and Industrial Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic
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Department of Applied Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, 70800 Ostrava, Czech Republic
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Machines 2022, 10(7), 590; https://doi.org/10.3390/machines10070590
Submission received: 30 June 2022 / Revised: 14 July 2022 / Accepted: 19 July 2022 / Published: 20 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Manufacture of Advanced Machines)

Abstract

One of the possible ways to transfer the tractive power of a drive unit to the traction element is to use fibre friction. When a steel rope is used as the traction element, there is a transfer of tractive power in the groove created on the perimeter of the rim of the driving rope sheave. The transmission capability of the drive is directly proportional to the size of the angle of wrap and the shear friction coefficient of the rope surface when the rope is in contact with the surface of the groove wall. The relationship for calculating the size of friction coefficient in the grooves is given by relevant technical standards. The coefficient of friction determined in this way does not take into account the state of possible operational contamination of the groove or the diameter of the rope used. Using a unique laboratory instrument, tensile forces were measured for both rope sides in the state of a non-rotating sheave or when the sheave started to rotate rope. Experimental measurements were carried out for two different diameters of steel ropes, which were guided by two types of grooves for the rope sheave under two limit operating states of the groove wall surface: clean and dirty with oil. By evaluating the measured tensile forces in the approaching and outrunning rope side girded with the groove of the rope sheave, it was found (using a measuring apparatus) that a rope of a larger diameter acquires a higher value of the friction coefficient for the groove than a rope of a smaller diameter. The coefficient of friction in the groove decreases with the increasing size of the sum of the acting tensile forces on both sides of the rope. Lower values of the coefficient of friction achieve semi-circular grooves, and V-shaped grooves show higher values. Lower values for the coefficient of friction, close to theoretical values which were calculated using the relevant relationships specified in the standards, were found for grooves contaminated with oil as opposed to dry and clean grooves.
Keywords: laboratory device; rope sheave groove; coefficient of friction; tensile forces in the rope; rope slip; the tractive force of the driving unit laboratory device; rope sheave groove; coefficient of friction; tensile forces in the rope; rope slip; the tractive force of the driving unit

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Hrabovský, L.; Učeň, O.; Kudrna, L.; Čepica, D.; Frydrýšek, K. Laboratory Device Detecting Tensile Forces in the Rope and Coefficient of Friction in the Rope Sheave Groove. Machines 2022, 10, 590. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines10070590

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Hrabovský L, Učeň O, Kudrna L, Čepica D, Frydrýšek K. Laboratory Device Detecting Tensile Forces in the Rope and Coefficient of Friction in the Rope Sheave Groove. Machines. 2022; 10(7):590. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines10070590

Chicago/Turabian Style

Hrabovský, Leopold, Oldřich Učeň, Lukáš Kudrna, Daniel Čepica, and Karel Frydrýšek. 2022. "Laboratory Device Detecting Tensile Forces in the Rope and Coefficient of Friction in the Rope Sheave Groove" Machines 10, no. 7: 590. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines10070590

APA Style

Hrabovský, L., Učeň, O., Kudrna, L., Čepica, D., & Frydrýšek, K. (2022). Laboratory Device Detecting Tensile Forces in the Rope and Coefficient of Friction in the Rope Sheave Groove. Machines, 10(7), 590. https://doi.org/10.3390/machines10070590

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