The Effect of Lay Length on the Antipull Performance of Steel Cords and the Spinning Loss Based on the FEM

Table 1

Mesh quality analysis.

	Center strand	Surface strand
Hex elements	12864	14400
Min angle on quad faces <10	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Average min angle on quad faces	75.27	76.01
Worst min angle on quad faces	69.81	62.69
Max angle on quad faces >160	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Average max angle on quad faces	109.60	105.66
Worst max angle on quad faces	123.63	125.65
Aspect ratio >10	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Average aspect ratio	1.48	1.62
Worst aspect ratio	1.90	2.07
Geometric deviation factor >0.2	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Average geometric deviation factor	0.0485	0.0435
Worst geometric deviation factor	0.0565	0.0599
Min edge length <0.01	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Average min edge length	0.0358	0.0333
Shortest edge	0.0275	0.0241
Max edge length >1	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Average max edge length	0.0519	0.0524
Longest edge	0.0581	0.0661
Analysis errors	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Analysis warnings	0 (0%)	0 (0%)