Explain the parameters for selecting a suitable wire rope, its construction, and wire rope description.

WIRE ROPES – CONSTRUCTION AND SELECTION CRITERIA COURSE QUESTION

This work is a solution to a common course question on wire ropes. The question requires the student to define wire ropes and explain the parameters for selecting a suitable wire rope, its construction, and wire rope description. The question is seemingly an assignment preferred by professors and has appeared year after year, mostly in the exact form presented herein, or in a tweaked variation of the same.

This work provides a step-by-step solution, with explanations and diagrams to help the student understand the entire context of the question.

Students will find this solution helpful even in handling other questions involving wire ropes.

This work is my own and has not been published elsewhere.