Experiences with Ropes
Starts: September 1, 2003 @ 8:00 am
Ends: September 3, 2003 @ 8:00 am
Place: Lenzburg, Switzerland
The conference papers are now available for OIPEEC members from our book store.

2003 OIPEEC Conference Paper Titles
| Author(s) | ODN# | Paper Title |
| Sayenga, D. | ODN 740 | The advent of wire rope “constructions” |
| Voigt, P-G. | ODN 741 | Quality of steel wire ropes |
| Vogel, W. | ODN 742 | Endurance and discard of ropes in lock gate drives |
| Wehking, K-H. | ODN 743 | Lifetime and discard for multilayer spooling in cranes |
| Buschmann, K. | ODN 744 | Rope failures on tower cranes |
| Eshkenazy, R., Weiss, M.P. and Elata, D. | ODN 745 | Torsion and bending stresses in non-rotation-resistant tower-crane ropes |
| Huber, H.M. | ODN 746 | Extreme rope rotation |
| Oplatka, G. | ODN 747 | Even relief of stress in a rope may have disastrous consequences: Two examples |
| Wiek, L. | ODN 748 | Wire rope fracture by exceptional damage |
| Hankus, J. | ODN 749 | Integrated methods for testing and assessment of safety condition of steel wire ropes |
| Sukhorukov, V.V., Kotelnikov, V.S., Zhukov, V.G. & Khudoshin, A.A. | ODN 750 | Importance of rope NDT for safe lifting by cranes |
| Volokhovsky, V.Yu., Vorontsov, A.N., Kagan, A.Ya. & Sukhorukov, V.V. | ODN 751 | Stochastic assessment of steel rope strength using magnetic NDT results |
| McCann, P. & Smith, D. | ODN 752 | Evaluation of instruments for the non-destructive testing (NDT) of wire ropes |
| Siegert, D. & Brevet, P. | ODN 753 | Fatigue of stay cables inside end fittings: high frequencies of wind induced vibrations |
| Kopanakis, G.A. | ODN 754 | Examples of vibrations due to a stranded rope running over pulleys and the chosen solution |
| Berezhinsky, V. | ODN 755 | Dangerous deterioration of steel wire ropes occurring over a local length |
| Tytko, A.A. | ODN 756 | Wire rope endurance on multi-rope friction winders |
| Chaplin, C.R. | ODN 757 | Rope tension in traction winches |