More Accurate Localized Wire

Rope
Testing Based on Hall Sensor Array
by Yinni Cao, Donglai Zhang, ChaoWang and Dianguo Xu
Abstract

Most traditional wire rope instruments give the sum of the

circumferential magnetic leakage of magnetized wireropes

and identify localized discontinuities according to it.In

this way,the circumferential distribution of discontinuities,

which has a considerable effect on wirerope’s residual

load-carrying capacity forthe same number of breaks or

other faults ofthe same degree, isignored. A wirerope

testing proto type based on a Hallsensor array is developed

to acquire the three-dimensional magnetic leakage of

the rope surface, which is sensitive to the circumferential

distribution of wire rope discontinuities, can distinguish

between concentrated broken wires and dispersive

ones,and gives more accurate localized discontinuity

identification with the method of two-dimensional

image processing.

Experimental results show that the discrimination of the signal

processing method for typical localized discontinuities, such as

broken wires of different degrees or raised wires, can reach 91%.

Keywords: wire rope, localized discontinuity, magnetic

Fluxle

Conclusion

Using a wire rope tester with a Hall sensor array,the

two-dimensional image processing technique can

be used to analyze localized discontinuities with

higher accuracy, providing a potential approach to

quantitative testing of wire rope.

However, for practical application, the following problems need to

be solved. The experiments in this paper have been conducted

on wire ropes of similar structure. With a different

type of wire rope, the resulting neural network

will change. Therefore it is necessary to prepare

asegmentofthetype ofropetobetestedwith

the types of localized discontinuities that may

be encountered, thus facilitating neural network

training beforehand.

Discontinuity depth information is not accounted

for in the experiments above and should be

considered in future work

The testingv elocity of this proto type is too low

(about1 to2 m/s)for practical field testing,so

electronic circuits with better performance at high

frequency should be used for the data acquisition.akage,Hall

sensorarray