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API Spec 9A

This document is an excerpt from API Spec 9A, which provides specifications for wire rope. It addresses a question regarding section I.3.4.2, which discusses reducing torsion values for ropes with shaped strands that have more than one layer of round wires. The term "shaped strands" refers to all options listed - triangular strands made of round wires for flattened strand ropes, ropes made with compacted strands where outer wires are flattened, and locked coil rope types.

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API Spec 9A

This document is an excerpt from API Spec 9A, which provides specifications for wire rope. It addresses a question regarding section I.3.4.2, which discusses reducing torsion values for ropes with shaped strands that have more than one layer of round wires. The term "shaped strands" refers to all options listed - triangular strands made of round wires for flattened strand ropes, ropes made with compacted strands where outer wires are flattened, and locked coil rope types.

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API Spec 9A - Specification for Wire Rope

Last update: March 3, 2009


Standard Edition Section Inquiry # Question Reply
9A 25th Edition I.3.4.2 9A-I-01/08 Question: In API 9A, Section I.3.4.2, the second paragraph states: “For The term “shaped strands” refers to Item d, all of the above.
Feb. 2004 ropes with shaped strands with more than one layer of round wires in
the strands, the values resulting from the above for round strands shall
be reduced by one torsion each.”

Does the term "shaped strands" refer to:

a. triangular strands as produced with round wires for flattened strand


ropes only;

b. ropes made with compacted strands (several of our ropes are


produced with compacted strands made with round wires where the
outer wires of the strands are flattened while the inner wires stay round);

c. locked coil types of ropes;

d. or, all of the above?

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