Smart Rope Is Almost Here!

Oxman

Oxman

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This months edition of Southwest Trees And Turf magazine features an article by Juan Barba in his column, "Rope Tricks".

Juan reports on the Squid Electronically Sensed Rope.

"Metal conductive fibers will be mixed with standard polymer fibers in twisted, braided, and multi braided rope configuration. Nylon, polyester and advanced polymeric fibers such as Spectra and Kevlar can be combined with integrated conductive fibers.

"Conductive and conventional fibers produce a rope that is capable of both carrying a load and monitoring the weight of that load.

"Under a load, resistance will go up when the load stretches the fibers and changes in conductivity will cause electronic changes. Threads can be placed in sheath or core to measure wear.

Juan Barba is on the Board of the Western Chapter, ISA. He can be reached at: juanbarba@earthlink.net

Thanks Juan!
 
Smart rope sounds interesting but a climbing rope with "metal conducting fibers" sounds like it carries a lot of risk to the climber and ground people.
 
Sounds interesting but I wouldn't have any use for it.

Just an aside... I have a 2' section of 25 year Mammut rock climbing rope where I stripped the sheath off (made a dog collar with it) and then used half of the core as a chew/pull toy for the dog (hyper-energetic border collie). It's shredded and picked so bad you can't recognize it as rope.

It will still hold my body weight... 25 years old, half the rope, chewed on by a dog for 3 or 4 months... still holds 200 pounds.

Climbing ropes are strong.
 
So the rope doesn't do anything different under high loads, right? It's just now you have the luxury of knowing exactly how much weight is being put on the rope?

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nick
 
Who would 'a thunk it? Rope that communicates to you.
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