Accession Number:
ADA018132
Title:
Greenhill's Formula and the Mechanics of Cable Hockling
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.
Corporate Author:
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB WASHINGTON DC
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1975-11-07
Pagination or Media Count:
31.0
Abstract:
In the application of marine cables as tension members, serious structural failures have occurred as a result of hockling forming of a loop under torsion combined with insufficient tension. This report endeavors to establish a criterion on end torques and forces for preventing hockling. It is shown that for rods in tension the torque corresponding to Greenhills 100-year- old formula defining the onset of bending is also the maximum torque which can be sustained at that tension. Thus, a straight rod or cable loaded by tension and the Greenhill torque is unstable, and Greenhills formula modified by an appropriate safety factor provides the desired no-hockle criterion. For long straight rods or cables under tension T and twisting moment M, this criterion for stability is M sq. 4TEI, where EI is the bending stiffness under load. The approach used was to numerically solve in nondimensional form the two-point boundary-value problem of the rod under axial end torques and forces. The report includes curves showing torques and forces for the possible range of deflection curves.
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Subject Categories:
- Marine Engineering