Research Article

Research on the Elastic Properties of Discontinuous Contact Wire Rope for WR-CVT

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Contact finite element model of continuous and discontinuous steel wire rope. (a) Continuous contact grid model with 2/3 lay length. (b) Discontinuous contact grid model of 2/3 lay length. (c) Finite element mesh of the discontinuous contact model.
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