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BS EN 13796-1:2017 - TC Tracked Changes. Safety requirements for cableway installations designed to carry persons. Carriers - Grips, carrier trucks, on-board brakes, cabins, chairs, carriages, maintenance carriers, tow-hangers, 2020
- 30260956_NEW.pdf [Go to Page]
- National foreword
- European foreword
- 1 Scope
- 2 Normative references
- 3 Terms and definitions
- 4 Symbols and abbreviations
- 5 General requirements [Go to Page]
- 5.1 Application of the standard
- 5.2 Safety principles [Go to Page]
- 5.2.1 General
- 5.2.2 Hazard scenarios
- 5.2.3 Safety measures
- 6 Basic requirements [Go to Page]
- 6.1 Technical documents to be supplied [Go to Page]
- 6.1.1 List of safety components
- 6.1.2 Drawings and parts lists [Go to Page]
- 6.1.2.1 General arrangement drawings of the carriers with indications of the main dimensions.
- 6.1.2.2 Detail drawings with lists of parts and indications of the materials in accordance with 6.4 for:
- 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 [Go to Page]
- 6.2.1 Self-weight (G)
- 6.2.2 Useful load (Q)
- 6.2.3 Wind action (Fw)
- 6.2.4 Gripping force (FF)
- 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 (Fs)
- 6.2.9 Damping moment (MY)
- 6.2.10 Torsional moment (MZ)
- 6.2.11 Force due to impact on guides (HY2)
- 6.2.12 Force due to impacts resulting from the action of the carrier truck brake (HX2)
- 6.2.13 Force due to the action of the on-board brake (QF)
- 6.2.14 Longitudinal force due to the passengers (HX1)
- 6.2.15 Transverse force due to the passengers (HY1)
- 6.2.16 Snow and frost actions
- 6.2.17 Force due to impact against buffers (AX)
- 6.2.18 Action caused by the gradient of the ropes (FN)
- 6.2.19 Force transverse to the track (FY)
- 6.3 Verifications [Go to Page]
- 6.3.1 General [Go to Page]
- 6.3.1.1 Verifications by calculation shall be provided to meet the minimum requirements regarding:
- 6.3.2 Static verifications [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.1 General [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.1.1 As a general rule, static verifications shall be carried out with the equivalent VON MISES stresses relative to the elastic limit of the material Re or the plastic limit Rp0,2.
- 6.3.2.1.2 The stability verifications shall indicate at least the same safety factors as when verifying the static safety.
- 6.3.2.1.3 The following tables give combinations of actions corresponding to the most current load cases that shall be examined. The safety factors in them shall be met. They may be reduced by 20% with a minimum of 1 if the calculations are done by fi...
- 6.3.2.2 Verification for carriers for unidirectional monocable aerial ropeways [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.2.1 Detachable grips
- 6.3.2.2.2 Fixed grips
- 6.3.2.2.3 Suspensions for carriers with detachable grips
- 6.3.2.2.4 Suspensions for carriers with fixed grips
- 6.3.2.2.5 Chairs/cabins with detachable grips
- 6.3.2.2.6 Chairs/cabins with fixed grips
- 6.3.2.3 Verification for carriers of reversible monocable aerial ropeways [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.3.1 Grips
- 6.3.2.3.2 Suspensions
- 6.3.2.3.3 Cabins
- 6.3.2.4 Verification for carriers of unidirectional bicable aerial ropeways [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.4.1 Carrier truck
- 6.3.2.4.2 Grips
- 6.3.2.4.3 Suspensions
- 6.3.2.4.4 Cabins
- 6.3.2.5 Verification for carriers for reversible bicable aerial ropeways [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.5.1 Carrier trucks
- 6.3.2.5.2 Suspensions
- 6.3.2.5.3 Cabins
- 6.3.2.5.4 Dry/cast sockets
- 6.3.2.5.5 Chapeaux de gendarme, clamps, drums, sockets
- 6.3.2.6 Verification of carriers for funicular railways [Go to Page]
- 6.3.2.6.1 Cabins
- 6.3.2.6.2 Chassis
- 6.3.2.6.3 Dry/cast sockets
- 6.3.2.6.4 Chapeaux de gendarme, clamps, drums, socket
- 6.3.2.7 Verification of tow-hangers of ski-tows
- 6.3.3 Fatigue verification [Go to Page]
- 6.3.3.1 General
- 6.3.3.2 Fatigue verification by calculation [Go to Page]
- 6.3.3.2.1 Safety factor
- 6.3.3.2.2 Carriers for unidirectional monocable aerial ropeways
- 6.3.3.2.3 Carriers for unidirectional bicable aerial ropeways
- 6.3.3.2.4 Carriers for reversible bicable aerial ropeways
- 6.3.3.2.5 Carriages for funicular railways
- 6.3.3.2.6 Chassis for funicular railways
- 6.4 Materials [Go to Page]
- 6.4.1 General
- 6.4.2 Steels
- 6.4.3 Welded components [Go to Page]
- 6.4.3.1 For welded structures, only materials whose weldability is guaranteed (see EN 10025 series, for example) shall be used.
- 6.4.3.2 Additives and filler metals for welding (welding powder, shielding gas) shall be suited to the welding process and the base materials to be welded. The requirements of the standards in force shall be met.
- 6.5 Construction principles
- 6.6 Production tests
- 6.7 Fire prevention and firefighting
- 7 End fixings for ropes and grips [Go to Page]
- 7.1 General
- 7.2 Haulage rope drum end fixing [Go to Page]
- 7.2.1 General
- 7.2.2 Haulage rope end clamps on fixing drum
- 7.2.3 Drum grooves
- 7.2.4 Coefficients of friction
- 7.3 Drum fixing of a continuous haulage rope
- 7.4 Socket end fixings (dry/cast sockets) [Go to Page]
- 7.4.1 General
- 7.4.2 Conical bush for cast socket
- 7.5 Aerial ropeway grips (excluding chapeaux de gendarme) [Go to Page]
- 7.5.1 General
- 7.5.2 Fixed grips
- 7.5.3 Detachable grips
- 7.6 Chapeau de gendarme [Go to Page]
- 7.6.1 General
- 7.6.2 Design requirements
- 7.6.3 Verifications
- 7.6.4 Coefficients of friction
- 7.7 Grips for towing ropes [Go to Page]
- 7.7.1 General
- 7.7.2 Fixed grips
- 7.7.3 Detachable bush grips
- 8 Carrier trucks for aerial ropeways
- 9 Chassis of funicular railways
- 10 On-board brakes [Go to Page]
- 10.1 Automatic application
- 10.2 Manual application
- 10.3 Verifications of the brake
- 11 Cabins, chairs and other carriers of aerial ropeways [Go to Page]
- 11.1 General [Go to Page]
- 11.1.1 Space envelopes
- 11.1.2 Carrier equipment [Go to Page]
- 11.1.2.1 The carriers shall be constructed so that the passengers cannot injure themselves.
- 11.1.2.2 Carriers in which loads are also transported shall be equipped with devices to transport them in complete safety. When objects are transported outside the carrier, their attachments shall meet the requirements applicable to the carrier, in pa...
- 11.1.2.3 The carriers shall be equipped to carry out an evacuation plan.
- 11.2 Cabins [Go to Page]
- 11.2.1 General [Go to Page]
- 11.2.1.2 In the case of cabins where the forces HX1 and HY1 are taken by protective rails:
- 11.2.2 Cabins for reversible aerial ropeways
- 11.2.3 Cabin doors
- 11.3 Rescue carriers
- 11.4 Chairs [Go to Page]
- 11.4.1 General
- 11.4.2 Seats, backs and armrests [Go to Page]
- 12.2.3.2 The width of the seat per person shall be at least:
- 11.4.3 Safety bars and footrests
- 11.4.4 Hoods
- 12 Carriages for funicular railways [Go to Page]
- 12.1 General
- 12.2 Carriage doors [Go to Page]
- 12.2.1 General
- 12.2.2 Doors for carriages with attendant
- 12.2.3 Doors for carriages without attendant [Go to Page]
- 12.2.3.3 The doors shall meet the two following requirements:
- 13 Maintenance vehicles [Go to Page]
- 13.1 General
- 13.2 Space envelopes
- 13.3 Identification plate
- 13.4 Dimensioning of the carrier
- 14 Tow-hangers [Go to Page]
- 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
- Bibliography [Go to Page]