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This European Standard is to be used together with EN 13001-1 and EN 13001-2 and as such they specify general conditions, requirements and methods to prevent mechanical hazards of wire ropes in cranes by design and theoretical verification.
NOTE Specific requirements for particular types of cranes are given in the appropriate European Standard for the particular crane type.
The following is a list of significant hazardous situations and hazardous events that could result in risks to persons during intended use and reasonably foreseeable misuse. Clauses 5 to 6 of this standard are necessary to reduce or eliminate risks associated with the following hazard:
− exceeding the limits of strength (yield, ultimate, fatigue).
This document does not apply to fibre ropes.
This European Standard is not applicable to cranes which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN and serves as reference base for the European Standards for particular crane types (see Annex C).
EN 13001-3-2 deals only with the limit state method in accordance with EN 13001-1.
The current standard defines relevant requirements set out in Annex I of EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, relating to machines which were placed on the European Economic Area (EEA) market for the first time, with the intent of simplifying the means of proving conformity with these requirements.
The harmonised standard EN 13001-3-2:2014 is highly flawed with regard to several of the safety verifications described in it. The state of the art in rope design is described in the work of Prof. Feyrer in particular, et al. and differs significantly from EN 13001-3-2.2014.
The Revision of the existing EN 13001-3-2 will be done in order to adapt to state-of-the-art, update the references included and consider the new Machine Regulation (EU) 2023/1230.
The main changes of this new edition prEN 13001-3-2:202x are:
• Update of proof of competence following state of art in accordance with ISO16625:2025.
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