ABSTRACT
The so called “safety” elevator emerged in New York in 1853, when Elisha Graves Otis introduced the safety brake, and from that point on, the users became more confident in using this vertical transport, for there was a safeguard in the case of the platform falling (Santos, 2007). At the end of the nineteenth century, the mastery of elevator technology, which made them increasingly safer and faster, stimulated the construction of higher buildings. Nowadays, elevator manufacturing companies are in constant search for new technologies, for example, the evolution of microelectronics and the development of special carbon steel alloys which allow the commercialization of ropes with smaller diameter and greater resistance.
