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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Sensors Volume 2012, Article ID 750261, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2012/750261 Research Article Health Monitoring for Coated Steel Belts in an Elevator System Huaming Lei,1, 2 Guiyun Tian,2 Hui Zhao,1 Yimei Mao,1 and Zuoying Huang1 1 Department of Instrument Science Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200204, China 2 School of Electrical, Electronic Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle, Newcastle NE1 7RU, UK Correspondence should be addressed to Huaming Lei, hmlei@ Received 30 November 2011; Accepted 13 February 2012 Academic Editor: B. P. C. Rao Copyright © 2012 Huaming Lei et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper presents a method of health monitoring for coated steel belts in an elevator system by measuring the electrical resistance of the ropes embedded in the belt. A model on resistance change caused by fretting wear and stress fatigue has been established. Temperature and reciprocating cycles are also taken into consideration when determining the potential strength degradation of the belts. It is proved by experiments that the method could effectively estimate the health degradation of the most dangerous section as well as other ones along the whole belts. 1. Introduction resistance as there is an insulating jacket and multiwire encased in the jacket. As long as some ropes were shorted at Elevator systems usually include a car and a counterweight one end of the belt through a spec