ANALYSIS OF HORIZONTAL LIFELINE CABLE 10/Jan/20

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INPUT DATA Units used in spreadsheet:

Total length of protection (L) 100 m length
Unstretched length of cable (L o) 98 m force
Length of loaded span (L s) 30 m These are used for cosmetic pur
Cable axial stiffness per unit length ("AE") 1000 kN
Load (P) 10 kN

USEFUL INTERMEDIATE RESULTS

Initial (unloaded) tension in cable (To) 20.40816 kN

INITIAL SOLUTION (assuming small displacements)

WORKINGS
Tension (T) 26.04791 kN
Displacement angle (q) 0.191954 radians
10.99815 degrees
Displacement 2.915203 m

RIGOROUS SOLUTION (starting from small-displacement sol'n) WORKINGS

Solution has converged
Tension (T) 26.15841 kN
Displacement angle (q) 0.192327 radians
11.0195 degrees
Displacement 2.921003 m

CHECKS ON SOLUTIONS
Small-displacement solution:
Total stretched length of cable 100.5613 m
® cable tension of 26.13581 kN
Vertical component of cable tensions at loaded point 9.938702 kN
® equilibrium error of 0.061298 kN 0.61%
Rigorous solution:
Total stretched length of cable 100.5635 m
® cable tension of 26.15841 kN
Vertical component of cable tensions at loaded point 10 kN
® equilibrium error of 0 kN 0.00%
Units used in spreadsheet:
m
kN
These are used for cosmetic purposes only.

WORKINGS
Coefficients in T ³ + a.T ² + b.T + c = 0 :
a = -20.40816 b= 0 c = -3826.531
This cubic equation always has a positive discriminant, so the direct algebraic solution is:
Q = -46.27701 R = 2228.075 S = 16.42827 T = 2.816913 Disc = 4865213

WORKINGS
Relaxation factor 0.85 ¬ Possible aid to convergence — should usually use a number between 0.5 and 1.0
Successive iterations:
T 26.04791 26.18459 26.1523 26.15985 26.15808 26.15849 26.1584 26.15842
Solve eqn (2) for q 0.193153 0.192132 0.192372 0.192316 0.192329 0.192326 0.192327 0.192327
Solve eqn (1) for T 26.20871 26.1466 26.16118 26.15777 26.15857 26.15838 26.15842 26.15841
 T = 26.04791

tween 0.5 and 1.0

26.15841 26.15841
0.192327 0.192327
26.15842 26.15841