This book on wire ropes is dedicated mainly to all users of wire ropes - the construction engineers, operators and supervisors of machines and instal- tions running on wire ropes - and it is divided into three main sections. The ?rst section deals with the di?erent types of wire rope and their component parts, the second looks into the e?ects of wire ropes under tensile forces (s- tionary ropes), while the third takes a look at the wire ropes under bending and tensile force (running ropes). In ...