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TN-1403 



GOVT ACCESSION 



DN487004 



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4. TITLE fluid Subtille) 



KINK FORMATION AND ROTATIONAL RESPONSE 

 OF SINGLE AND MULTISTRAND ELECTRO- 

 MECHANICAL CABLES 



3 E Qt REPORT 6 PERIOD COVERED 



Final; July 1973-June 1974 



6 PERFORMING ORG. REPOF 



7. SUTHORfs; 



F. C. Liu 



CONTRACT OR GR 



PERFORMING ORGANIZATION 



ELEMENT PROJECT 



CIVIL ENGINEERING LABORATORY 

 Naval Construction Battalion Center 

 Port Hueneme, California 93043 



62759N; 



YF52. 556.004.01.001 



CONTROLLING OFFICE I 



•ID ADDRESS 



Naval Facilities Engineering Command 

 Alexandria, Virginia 22332 



; 2. REPORT DATE 



October 1975 



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9 KEY WORDS (Co 



Electromechanical cables, wire ropes, stress analysis, cable kinks, cable rotations, cable 

 mechanics, cable testing, cable modeling. 



20. ABSTRACT (Co 



Mathematical models for double-armored and multistrand cables were formulated 

 to simulate straight cable sections. Numerical solutions for free-end and fixed-end cables 

 under tension were obtained with a computer. Controlled cable tests were conducted to 

 generate data on the rotational behavior of six cables of different size and construction. 

 Part of the data was used to compare with results from the analytical models. Experimental 

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