Research Article

Nonlinear Modeling of Cables with Flexural Stiffness

Figure 1

Stress-free configuration , prestressed configuration 0 , and actual configuration (top). Unit vectors and rotations of the plane kinematics (bottom left) and internal/external forces in the cable (bottom right).
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