Det Norske Veritas - Germanischer Lloyd

DNVGL  Wire ropes
 N DNVGL-CP-0255

Annotation

Scope and application

This programme is applicable for the approval of material manufacturers of:

Wire ropes,

as referred in the Society's rules and standards. For a description of general requirements, conditions and procedures related to the approval, please refer to DNVGL CP 0346 which shall be applied in combination with this programme.

The product(s) used for approval testing (see Sec.3) will place limitations on the range of approval. The approval will be limited to:

wire rope type

wire rope construction

maximum wire rope diameter

core construction (i.e. fibre, steel etc.)

lay type

lay direction

breaking load of the wire rope

tensile strength grade of the wires of the wire rope

However, test data supplied for one construction may cover wire ropes of other constructions in the same wire rope class (for definition of classes, see API 9A), provided tested and covered constructions have:

same type of core

same type of lay type and direction

same wire shape, grade and finish