D-Cable: Improving Mine Safety and Productivity For Over 10 Years

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d-CABLE Improving Mine Safety and Productivity for over 10 years

Features:
 Individually calibrated for

highest accuracy
 High Load Resolution: 0.01ton
 Load Linearity: typically under

1.5% F.S. (0-24.0ton), high Load
Accuracy: typically better than
+/- 1.0ton
 No potentiometers used
 Individual calibration sheets

d-CABLE by YieldPoint provided
- Monitor load changes over time along 7-wire stand  Unique instrument ID and
calibration coefficients stored
cable bolts
in microprocessor
- Assess the Factor of Safety against cable rupture
- Applies to cable bolts, ground anchors, tendons,  Available in 1 to 6 load meters
and tie-backs used in all types of mining and civil
projects  Readout head same diameter as
- Can help predict the risk of catastrophic structural cable to ease grips installation
failure
 On-board digital temperature
- Data can enhance many aspects of engineering sensor for temperature
design, installation quality control, long-term compensation
operation assessment, and rehabilitation
- Interchangeable with a regular cable and  Smallest electronics head
deployment simply involves replacing a regular (25mm ø x 150mm long)
cable with its instrumented equivalent. During
 Immune to hostile environment
cementing/grouting no special procedures need to
be followed  Highly resistant to shock and
- Readout head of the d-CABLE has the same vibration.
diameter as the 7-wire strand itself, and therefore
grips and a jack can be applied over the readout  Easy to install and maintain
head if the cable is to be plated. If no face-plate is  Compatible with low cost
required the readout head can simply be recessed peripheral devices for data
into the collar of the hole logging, Ethernet and WiFi
- All sensors are individually calibrated
- Our competitors do not calibrate their sensors  Competitively priced
individually
YieldPoint Inc.
[email protected]
1407 John Counter Blvd, #170
Kingston, ON, Canada K7K 6A9
Tel: (613) 531-4722 Fax: (613) 545-3338
www.yieldpoint.com
d-CABLE
Technology Telemetry
How Does it work?
d-CABLE is based on a miniature inductive

strain gauge small enough to be recessed
into a surrogate tubular king-wire. The
gauges are configured with base-lengths of The RS485 output signal can be transmitted
200mm to 2000mm. When the ends of the over 1,000ft without amplification. Readings
strain gauge are secured -usually swaged-, d- (one per strain gauge) are directly in tons
Cable will measure how a certain length of allowing immediate interpretation of cable
the cable bolt is stretching in response to load.
load.
Manual Readout
Either a single strain gauge -for end-anchored
cables spun in resin- or an array of strain d-READER is a low cost readout unit that
gauges may be specified. These can be provides sensor ID, sensor type, temperature
concentrated at locations where it is and load data directly in oC and tons.
predicted that the cable may intersect a
known geotechnical feature. The base length SensorViewer provides USB connectivity with
between the ends of the strain-gauges is laptop or netbook PC. If power is available a
specified by the customer. During low cost netbook computer can be
manufacturing the entire strain gauge array is transformed into a low cost data-logger
independently manufactured and calibrated
and then recessed into the king-wire and
Data Logging
swaged in place.
The “signal processing head” of the d-CABLE The d-LOGGER (32Mb of memory) can collect
is reduced to a diameter equal to that of the up to 30000 readings from the d-micro over a
cable because the technology uses strain period up to 1 year. Download to a PC is with
gauges distributed within the cable rather a USB download cable (order separately).
than displacement sensors housed in an
instrumentation head. This has significant Data loggers require no configuration and are
advantages in applications that require fully interchangeable with any other types of
plating or pre-tensioning. YieldPoint instrument (d-MPBX borehole
extensometers, d-GMM, d-TILT, d-
Post-tensioning & Plating Procedures PLUCKER…)
Automated Data Retrieval

In many applications, cables require post-
tensioning using a plate and grips. Since the
readout head of the d-CABLE in the same as Clusters of sensors can be polled using
that of the cable itself, the grips and YieldPoint DESTINY wireless technology.
tensioning jack can simply be placed over the Each low-cost DESTINY node interfaces
end of the instrumented cable. several instruments directly to a TCP/IP
network. Transfer to a leaky feeder will be
available early 2013.
d-CABLE
DISPLACEMENT SENSOR DETAIL
3 1
5 5
7 8 6
3 1
1.Carbon Fiber rod

2.Ferrite
3. Thin Wall PolyImide Tube
4. Coil wound on polyimide tube
5. SS tempered tube
6.Peripheral wires of cable Borehole
7.Rock
8.Cement
Leadwire
Signal processing and
telemetry assesmbly.
300mm
Detail of the miniature inductive load meter that can be recessed into the tubular king-wire
such that the strain can be determined accurately at location rather than translated to an
instrumentation head at the end of the cable.
NOTE: The YieldPoint manual readout unit (d-READER) outputs load directly in tons
(resolution 0.01ton).
d-CABLE
Applications Specification
 Core Technology: Temperature

 Slope monitoring compensated inductive strain gauge.
User specified base length.
 Monitoring cable reinforcement in
tunnels and drifts  Output Signal: RS485 with
transmission up to 500m over 2xtp
 Monitoring cable reinforcement in
stopes and other large openings  Load Range (F.S.): 0-24 tons (linear
relation for load vs. strain) 24-26
 Monitoring cables in fill mats tons (yielding relation for load vs.
strain)
 Monitoring ground anchors
 Load Resolution: 0.01ton
 Monitoring strand reinforced
concrete  Load Linearity: typically under 1.5%
F.S. (0-24.0ton)
 Monitoring tie-backs
 Total Load Accuracy: typically
better than +/- 1.0ton
 Digital Temperature sensor
 Temperature range: Temp: -40 to

125oC
 Temperature Resolution: 0.1oC
 Temperature Accuracy: +/- 2oC
 Temperature coefficient for load

meter: <+/- 0.01%
To Order, Please Specify:
 Number of strain gauges: 1to 6

Borehole
 End Locations of gauges
 Lead wire length
Leadwire  Poly lead wire cover

Plate & grip
Signal processing and Instrumented king wire

telemetry assesmbly.
1407 John Counter Blvd, Unit 170,

Kingston, ON, Canada K7K 6A9.
Tel: (613) 531-4722 [email protected]
Fax: (613) 545-3338 www.yieldpoint.com

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d-CABLE Improving Mine Safety and Productivity for over 10 years

 Individually calibrated for

 High Load Resolution: 0.01ton

 Load Linearity: typically under

 Individual calibration sheets

How Does it work?

d-CABLE is based on a miniature inductive

Automated Data Retrieval

1.Carbon Fiber rod

 Core Technology: Temperature

 Digital Temperature sensor

 Temperature range: Temp: -40 to

 Temperature Resolution: 0.1oC

 Temperature Accuracy: +/- 2oC

 Temperature coefficient for load

To Order, Please Specify:

 Number of strain gauges: 1to 6

 Lead wire length

Leadwire  Poly lead wire cover

Signal processing and Instrumented king wire

1407 John Counter Blvd, Unit 170,

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