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  2. Bend radius - Wikipedia

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    The minimum bend radius is in general also a function of tensile stresses, e.g., during installation, while being bent around a sheave while the fiber or cable is under tension. If no minimum bend radius is specified, one is usually safe in assuming a minimum long-term low-stress radius not less than 15 times the cable diameter, or 2 inches. [1]

  3. List of steepest gradients on adhesion railways - Wikipedia

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    1 in 28 (3.6%) LGV Sud-Est high-speed line, France: 1 in 28.5 (3.5%) Kyushu Shinkansen, Japan: 1 in 48 (2.08%) Liverpool and Manchester Railway Docks 1830: designed for cable haulage to begin with; replaced by locomotives when technology advanced enough. 1 in 96 (1.04%) Liverpool and Manchester Railway: 1830

  4. Minimum railway curve radius - Wikipedia

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    For a line with a maximum speed of 60 km/h (37 mph), buffer-and-chain couplers increase the minimum radius to around 150 m (164 yd; 492 ft). As narrow-gauge railways , tramways , and rapid transit systems normally do not interchange with mainline railways, instances of these types of railway in Europe often use bufferless central couplers and ...

  5. Capstan equation - Wikipedia

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    The rope is on the verge of full sliding, i.e. is the maximum load that one can hold. Smaller loads can be held as well, resulting in a smaller effective contact angle φ {\displaystyle \varphi } . It is important that the line is not rigid, in which case significant force would be lost in the bending of the line tightly around the cylinder.

  6. Wire rope - Wikipedia

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    Ropes used for suspension are often called cables. [16] Track ropes (full locked ropes) have to act as rails for the rollers of cabins or other loads in aerial ropeways and cable cranes. In contrast to running ropes, track ropes do not take on the curvature of the rollers. Under the roller force, a so-called free bending radius of the rope occurs.

  7. Fiber-optic patch cord - Wikipedia

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    The inner diameter measures 9 μm for single-mode cables, and 50 / 62.5 μm for multi-mode cables. The development of "reduced bend radius" fiber in the mid-2000s, enabled a trend towards smaller cables. Each unit of diameter reduction in a round cable, produces a disproportionate corresponding reduction in the space the cable occupies. [1]

  8. Twinaxial cabling - Wikipedia

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    Twinaxial cabling, or twinax, is a type of cable similar to coaxial cable, but with two inner conductors in a twisted pair instead of one. [3] Due to cost efficiency it is becoming common in modern (2013) very-short-range high-speed differential signaling applications.

  9. Bowden cable - Wikipedia

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    A Bowden cable (/ ˈ b oʊ d ən / BOH-dən) [1] is a type of flexible cable used to transmit mechanical force or energy by the movement of an inner cable relative to a hollow outer cable housing. The housing is generally of composite construction, consisting of an inner lining, a longitudinally incompressible layer such as a helical winding or ...