No Access

Structural design and mechanical performance evaluations of flexible and lightweight belt by CFRP

Sung-Youl Bae

Composites Team, Korea Textile Machinery Convergence Research Institute, Korea

E-mail Address: sybae@kotmi.ac.kr

Search for more papers by this author

and

Yun-Hae Kim

Department of Ocean Advanced Materials Convergence Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Korea

E-mail Address: yunheak@kmou.ac.kr

Corresponding author.

Search for more papers by this author

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984920400345Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

This article is part of the issue:

SPECIAL ISSUE — International Conference on Nanomaterials and Advanced Composites (NAC2019)
Guest Editors: Yun Hae Kim, Chang-Mo Wu and Pankaj Koinkar

Abstract

This research presents the structural design and mechanical performance evaluation results of a lightweight belt for high-rise elevators. Weight reduction of elevator components is indispensable in developing ultra-high-rise elevators. In this study, the structural design and performance evaluation of high-rise elevator ropes were carried out. The weight of the newly designed Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) belt was reduced by 30% compared with the original steel wire rope. The structural analysis results of the CFRP belt showed that the design criteria were met on the design load condition of the belt. Also, mechanical tests were executed to verify the mechanical characteristics of the newly developed belt, with the results showing that the belt had sufficient structural performance compared with conventional steel wire rope.

Keywords:

References

1. A. K. Kheir, Buildings 5 (2015) 1070. Crossref, Web of Science, Google Scholar
2. G. Rebel and I. M. L. Ridge, Lightweight ropes for lifting applications, in Proc. 2006 OIPEEC Conference, Athens, 2006, Vol. I (Greece, Athens, 2006), pp. 33–54. Google Scholar
3. B. Abbaspour, Elevator Engineering (Elevator World Inc., USA, 2010), pp. 127–128. Google Scholar