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Overview
Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Finite Element
Analysis (FEA) software has provided most manufacturing industries
with tremendous productivity gains over the past 20 years. The cable
industry has not realized these gains, however, because modeling
complex helical geometry is difficult using general purpose CAD
software. For analysis, expert knowledge is required to define a
finite element mesh with appropriate contact and other boundary
conditions. CableCAD overcomes these obstacles with specialized
cable modeling features that allow you to literally model and analyze
your designs in minutes.
The best way to learn about CableCAD's capabilities
is to watch our overview presentation.
(Adobe Flash
Player required.)
Summary of Features
- Cables, ropes and flexible pipe
- Single, double, triple helical constructions
- Round, rectangular, keystone helical wires
- Cylindrical components
- Linear and nonlinear materials (multilinear
elastic or Ramberg-Osgood curve fitting)
- Automatic
core compaction
- Synthetic fibers
- Embedded wires
- Material and component color coding
- Finite element modeler
- Layer element modeler
- Nonlinear mechanical and thermal analysis
- Automatic torque-balance
- Frictional bending
- Wire indentation
- Layer locking at 100% coverage
- Radial axes of symmetry
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- Free bending or bending
over a sheave (with friction)
- Full or partial external pressure
- Component internal pressure
- Clamping
- Thermal loads
- Cable axial strain
- Cable torque or rotation
- Change of cable diameter
- Cable strength
- Equivalent axial and bending rigidities
- Tension, torque contributions of each layer
- Minimum cable bend diameter
- Radial pressure between layers
- Component stresses
- Factors of safety (yield and ultimate)
- Layer breaking strength
- Initial and final wire layer coverages
- Individual layer and total cable weights
- Layer mean temperature change
- Nodal force listing at all circular
component nodes
- Plots of all analysis results
- Three-dimensional cable plot
- Layer description plot
- Print, paste, export graphics and results
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System Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows® XP or 7
- at least 32 MB RAM
- at least 20 MB disk space
- Super VGA graphics (600x800 or 1024x768 or better) card and
monitor recommended
- 2 MB video memory
- CD-ROM drive
- USB port
- A mouse or other pointing device
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