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SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR CABLEWAY INSTALLATIONS DESIGNED TO CARRY PERSONS - CARRIERS - PART 1: GRIPS, CARRIER TRUCKS, ON-BOARD BRAKES, CABINS, CHAIRS, CARRIAGES, MAINTENANCE CARRIERS, TOW-HANGERS
12-01-2013
Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Symbols and abbreviations
5 General requirements
5.1 Application of the standard
5.2 Safety principles
5.2.1 General
5.2.2 Hazard scenarios
5.2.3 Safety measures
6 Basic requirements
6.1 Technical requirements
6.1.1 List of safety components
6.1.2 Drawings and parts lists
6.1.3 Certificates
6.1.4 Calculations
6.1.5 Self-weight weighing report
6.1.6 Operating manual
6.2 Actions and effects of the environment
6.2.1 Self-weight (G)
6.2.2 Useful load (Q)
6.2.3 Wind action (F[W])
6.2.4 Gripping force (F[F])
6.2.5 Opening and closing force (O)
6.2.6 Reaction force when entering the
station (R)
6.2.7 Reaction force when passing round
a sheave (U)
6.2.8 Force due to haulage rope support (F[S])
6.2.9 Damping moment (M[Y])
6.2.10 Torsional moment (M[Z])
6.2.11 Force due to impact on guides (H[Y2])
6.2 12 Force due to impacts resulting from the
action of the carrier truck brake (H[X2])
6.2.13 Force due to the action of the on-board
brake (Q[F])
6.2.14 Longitudinal force due to the
passengers (H[X1])
6.2.15 Transverse force due to the
passengers (H[Y1])
6.2.16 Snow and frost actions
6.2.17 Force due to impact against buffers (A[X])
6.2.18 Action caused by the gradient of the
ropes (F[N])
6.2.19 Force transverse to the track (F[Y])
6.3 Verifications
6.3.1 General
6.3.2 Static verifications
6.4 Materials
6.4.1 General
6.4.2 Steels
6.4.3 Welded components
6.5 Construction principles
6.6 Production tests
7 End fixings for ropes and grips
7.1 Haulage rope drum end fixing
7.1.1 General
7.1.2 Haulage rope end clamps on fixing drum
7.1.3 Drum grooves
7.1.4 Coefficients of friction
7.2 Drum fixing of a continuous haulage rope
7.3 Socket end fixings
7.3.1 General
7.3.2 Conical bush for cast socket
7.4 Aerial ropeway grips (excluding chapeaux de
gendarme)
7.4.1 General
7.4.2 Fixed grips
7.4.3 Detachable grips
7.5 Chapeau de gendarme
7.5.1 General
7.5.2 Design requirements
7.5.3 Verifications
7.5.4 Coefficients of friction
7.6 Grips for towing ropes
7.6.1 General
7.6.2 Fixed grips
7.6.3 Detachable bush grips
8 Carrier truck for aerial ropeways
9 Chassis of funicular railways
10 On-board brake
10.1 Automatic application
10.2 Manual application
10.3 Verifications of the brake
11 Cabins, chairs and other carriers of aerial ropeways
11.1 General
11.1.1 Space envelopes
11.1.2 Carrier equipment
11.2 Cabins
11.2.1 General
11.2.2 Cabins for reversible aerial ropeways
11.2.3 Cabin doors
11.3 Rescue carriers
11.4 Chairs
11.4.1 General
11.4.2 Seats, backs and armrests
11.4.3 Safety bars and footrests
11.4.4 Hoods
12 Carriages for funicular railways
12.1 General
12.2 Carriage doors
12.2.1 General
12.2.2 Doors for carriages with attendant
12.2.3 Doors for carriages without attendant
13 Maintenance carriers
13.1 General
13.2 Space envelopes
13.3 Identification plate
13.4 Dimensioning of the carrier
14 Tow-hangers
14.1 General
14.2 Rods and springboxes
14.3 T-bars and platters
Annex ZA (informative) Relationship between this European
Standard and the Essential Requirements
of EU Directive 2000/9/EC relating
to cableway installations designed to
carry persons
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