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d-CABLE
Features:

 Digital (d-Tech) instrumented

cable with RS485 signal out.

 Instrumented 7-wire strand

cable applicable to plain
strand, Bulb cables.

 Applicable to cables spun in

resin

 Available with 1(d1CABLE) to 5

(d5CABLE)loadmeters
YieldPoint’sd-CABLE technology allows engineers,
technicians, consultants and contractors to monitor how  Readout head is same diameter
the load develops along 7-wire stand cable bolts over as cable to facilitate
time, and hence to assess the Factor of Safety against installation of grips. No special
cable rupture. The instrument is applicable to cable bolts, procedure for plated cables.
ground anchors, tendons, and tie-backs used in all types
 Microcontroller provides output
of mining and civil projects. It has the potential to predict directly in load (tons).
the risk of catastrophic structural failure: in fact d-CABLE
data can enhance many aspects of engineering design,  Individually calibrated.
installation quality control, long-termoperation
assessment, and rehabilitation.  Immunity to hostile environment

 High survivability to shock and

The d-CABLE is indistinguishable from a regular cable and vibration.
deployment simply involves replacing a regular cable with
its instrumented equivalent. During cementing/grouting  Easy to install and maintain.
no special procedures need to be followed. The readout
head of the d-CABLE has the same diameter as the 7-wire  Low cost peripheral devices for
data-logging (d-LOGGGER) and
strand itself, and therefore grips and a jack can be
data Ethernet and WiFi running
applied over the readout head if the cable is to be plated. TCP/IP upload (DESTINY).
If no face-plate is required the readout head can simply
be recessed into the collar of the hole.  Competitively priced.

YieldPoint Inc.
[email protected]
1407 John Counter Blvd, Unit 170,
Kingston, ON, Canada. K7K 6A9
Tel: (613) 531-4722 Fax: (888) 282 5784
www.yieldpoint.com
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Technology Telemetry

How Does it work?

The 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 200mm to 2000mm. When the ends of the
strain-gauge are secured (usually swaged) it
will measure how a certain length of the
cable bolt is stretching in response to load. The RS485 output signal can be transmitted
over 500m without amplification. Readings
Either a single strain-gauge (for end anchored (one for each strain gauge) are directly in
cables spun in resin) or an array of strain tons allowing immediate interpretation of
gauges may be specified. These can be cable load without having to enter the raw
concentrated at locations where it is voltage data in a spreadsheet.
predicted that the cable may intersect a
known geotechnical feature. The base-length Manual Readout
between the ends of the strain-gauges is
specified by the customer. During YieldPoint’s low cost d-READER readout unit
manufacturing the entire strain-gauge array is provides the temperature and load data
o
independently manufactured and calibrated directly in C and tons.
and then recessed into the king-wire and
swaged in place. Datalogging

Since the technology involves strain Data from the d-CABLE can be collected
gaugesdistributed within the cable rather using YieldPoint’s d-LOGGER dataloggers
than displacement sensors housed in an (d1LOGGER and d4LOGGER). The data-loggers
instrumentation head, the “signal processing require no configuration and are fully
head” of the d-CABLE is reduced to a interchangeable with any other type of
diameter equal to that of the cable. This has YieldPoint instrument (d-MPBX borehole
significant advantages in applications that extensometers, d-GMM, d-TILT, d-PLUCKER
require plating or pre-tensioning. etc). Therefore arrays of instruments to
monitor cable load and ground movement can
Postensioning/Plating Procedures easily be combined.

In many applications cables require post- Automated Data Retrieval

tensioning using a plate and grips. Since the
readout head of the d-CABLE in the same as Clusters of sensors (4 per Slave) can be polled
that of the cable itself, the grips and using YieldPoint’s DESTINY (digitally Enabled
tensioning jack can simply be placed over the Sensor Transducer and Instrumentation
end of the instrumented cable. Network from YieldPoint) technology. Each
low-cost DESTINY node interfaces 4
instruments directly to a TCP/IP network.
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DISPLACEMENT SENSOR DETAIL

3 1
5 5

7 8 6

1
3

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

The figure above shows detail of the miniature inductive strain gauge that can be recessed
into the tubular king-wire. The strain can be determined accurately in situ 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).
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Applications Specification

 Core Technology: Temperature

 Slope monitoring. compensated inductive strain
gauge. User specified baselength.
 Monitoring cable reinforcement in
tunnels and drifts  Digital Temperature sensor

 Monitoring cable reinforcement in  Output Signal –RS485 with

stopes and other large openings transmission up to 500m over 2xtp.

 Monitoring cables in fill mats  Load Range (F.S.) – 0-24tons

(linear relation for load v strain)
 Monitoring ground anchors 24-26tonnes (yielding relation for
load v strain).
 Monitoring strand reinforced
concrete  Load Resolution - 0.01ton.

 Monitoring tie-backs  Load.Linearity - typically 1.5%

F.S(0-24.0ton)
2

 Total Load Accuracy – typically

1.5
Anchor4
better than +/- 1.0ton.
Load tonnes )

Anchor 3

 Temp. range: Temp: -40 to 125oC

Anchor 2
1 Anchor 1
Temp Change(C)

0.5  Temp Resolution: 0.1oC

0  Temp Accuracy: +/- 2oC Temp

-0.5  Temp. coeff for loadmeter:<+/-

0.01%
Temp(C)

-1

To Order Specify:
-1.5

-2  Number of strain gauges(1-5).

200 220 240 260 280 300 320 340 360 380

Time (hours)
 End Locations of gauges.
Detailed d-CABLE data recorded using a d-
 Leadwire length.
LOGGER.
 Poly leadwire cover.

1407 John Counter Blvd, Unit #170,

Kingston, ON, Canada, K7K 6A9
Tel: (613) 531-4722 [email protected]
Fax: (888) 282 5784 www.yieldpoint.com