Static Analysis of a Lumped Mass Cable System Available to Purchase

In this paper, we advance a methodology for obtaining the statics solution of lumped mass cable system. The method presented here is general enough for most cable configurations (slack or taut), and works well for a broad range of cable elasticity. The forces considered acting on the cable are due to elasticity, weight, buoyancy and aero/hydrodynamics. A shooting method is used to generate the statics solution for the lumped mass model and thus find the equilibrium position of all the cable nodes. This approach converges onto a solution more efficiently compared to other conventional approaches. In particular, for the two-dimensional problem, the solution is obtained from a set of two equations, regardless of how fine the cable discretization is.