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Bending of helically twisted cables under variable ... - Pfisterer

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This “remanent” secondary stiffness (EJ) zusII is calculated by the summation <strong>of</strong> (2.34) over all wires in<br />

the cable. le. The functions in (2.34), however, have no closed solution for (EJ) (EJ)zusII and the summation<br />

must be done numerically (see also Section 2.7).<br />

For the summations in the two equations for stiffness (EJ) (EJ)min in acc. with (2.30) and (EJ) (EJ)zusI in acc. with<br />

(2.33), 3), a simple equation can be found for each, however:<br />

The summation in each case includes the nL n identical wires in a layer <strong>of</strong> the cable. The corresponding<br />

cable cable stiffnesses are simple simple to to calculate from the summation summation <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> all all the the layer layer stiffnesses stiffnesses using the<br />

equations above, Section 3.5.<br />

The following identity is a special case <strong>of</strong> (2.38):<br />

This is valid for ϕi = 2 /nL i = 1,…..,n 1,…..,nL and nL > 2, which is always true for <strong>helically</strong> <strong>twisted</strong> <strong>cables</strong>.<br />

This This relationship, relationship, hitherto hitherto known known as as an an empirical empirical rule [EPRI, [EPRI, 1979, p.15], p.15], is proven in Annexure II.<br />

II.<br />

2.5. The cable bending moment<br />

Based on the known stiffness ffness (EJ) and curvature κ in the cable, the natural equation for the elastic curve<br />

can be used to calculate the associated cable bending moment M = (EJ) κ.<br />

By using the relationship derived in the previous paragraph:<br />

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