GEOMETRIC MODELING OF WIRE ROPE

Abstract

Independent wire rope cores are constructed by helically wrapping the a wire strands over a straight wire and then following it by more strands depending on required wire rope construction i.e. application of wire rope. The locations of single and nested wires are created for a given design and the meshed model is constructed for analysis. The outer wires of the IWRC wire ropes are of double helical shape which can be modeled using special technique. Aim of this paper is to presents a more realistic approach of generating wire rope model using CAD software SolidWorkTM. Correctness of the profile of the generated rope model is controlled by visualizations. This modeling technique is found quite easy and effective