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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.
pierre@yieldpoint.com
1407 John Counter Blvd, #170
Kingston, ON, Canada K7K 6A9
Tel: (613) 531-4722 Fax: (613) 545-3338
www.yieldpoint.com
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Technology
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
200mm to 2000mm. When the ends of the
strain gauge are secured -usually swaged-, d-
Cable will measure how a certain length of
the cable bolt is stretching in response to
load.
Either a single strain gauge -for end-anchored
cables spun in resin- or an array of strain
gauges may be specified. These can be
concentrated at locations where it is
predicted that the cable may intersect a
known geotechnical feature. The base length
between the ends of the strain-gauges is
specified by the customer. During
manufacturing the entire strain gauge array is
independently manufactured and calibrated
and then recessed into the king-wire and
swaged in place.
The “signal processing head” of the d-CABLE
is reduced to a diameter equal to that of the
cable because the technology uses strain
gauges distributed within the cable rather
than displacement sensors housed in an
instrumentation head. This has significant
advantages in applications that require
plating or pre-tensioning.
Post-tensioning & Plating Procedures
In many applications, cables require post-
tensioning using a plate and grips. Since the
readout head of the d-CABLE in the same as
that of the cable itself, the grips and
tensioning jack can simply be placed over the
end of the instrumented cable.
Telemetry
The RS485 output signal can be transmitted
over 1,000ft without amplification. Readings
(one per strain gauge) are directly in tons
allowing immediate interpretation of cable
load.
Manual Readout
d-READER is a low cost readout unit that
provides sensor ID, sensor type, temperature
and load data directly in oC and tons.
SensorViewer provides USB connectivity with
laptop or netbook PC. If power is available a
low cost netbook computer can be
transformed into a low cost data-logger
Data Logging
The d-LOGGER (32Mb of memory) can collect
up to 30000 readings from the d-micro over a
period up to 1 year. Download to a PC is with
a USB download cable (order separately).
Data loggers require no configuration and are
fully interchangeable with any other types of
YieldPoint instrument (d-MPBX borehole
extensometers, d-GMM, d-TILT, d-
PLUCKER…)
Automated Data Retrieval
Clusters of sensors can be polled using
YieldPoint DESTINY wireless technology.
Each low-cost DESTINY node interfaces
several instruments directly to a TCP/IP
network. Transfer to a leaky feeder will be
available early 2013.
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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).
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Applications
 Slope monitoring
 Monitoring cable reinforcement in
tunnels and drifts
 Monitoring cable reinforcement in
stopes and other large openings
 Monitoring cables in fill mats
 Monitoring ground anchors
 Monitoring strand
concrete
 Monitoring tie-backs
Borehole
Leadwire
Signal processing and
telemetry assesmbly.
Specification
 Core Technology: Temperature
compensated inductive strain gauge.
User specified base length.
 Output Signal: RS485 with
transmission up to 500m over 2xtp
 Load Range (F.S.): 0-24 tons (linear
relation for load vs. strain) 24-26
tons (yielding relation for load vs.
strain)
 Load Resolution: 0.01ton
reinforced
 Load Linearity: typically under 1.5%
F.S. (0-24.0ton)
 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
 End Locations of gauges
 Lead wire length
 Poly lead wire cover
Plate & grip
Instrumented king wire
1407 John Counter Blvd, Unit 170,
Kingston, ON, Canada K7K 6A9.
Tel: (613) 531-4722 pierre@yieldpoint.com
Fax: (613) 545-3338 www.yieldpoint.com