Dictionary of Civil Engineering: English-French

Chapter C: Cable Cymatum

CABLE CAKAR AYAM PROCESS

CABLE C ble
Materials; Construction
  1. A semi-flexible rope formed by many thin steel wires to helicoid rolling up either in a single strand, or in several twisted together strands between them. Cables can be metallic, of natural fibers, or synthetic fibers.

    We can distinguish:

    • no-spinning cable ( le c ble antigiratoire), obtained inverting the direction of the spiral of several layers of strands. It is mainly reserved to the handling to avoid the rotation of the suspended loads;

    • locked-coil rope ( le c ble clos), which is a spiroid or strand rope cable whose external layers are formed by shaped wires intended, by a best contact, for limiting the water penetration inside the cable;

    • rope in a ring ( le c ble en couronne), formed by a not contiguous set of cables whose space is kept by a core at the necklaces level;

    • twisted rope ( le c ble torsad ) formed by an assembly of strands or stranded cables rolled between them possibly around a central strand. Syn. with ROPE; WIRE ROPE

  2. In a suspension bridge, cable that makes up of a set of cables supporting the deck. Cables make up of the main elements of the work.

CABLE BOTTOM Culot de c ble ou d'ancrage
Construction
A piece constituting the end of a wire rope, by which this cable is fixed or pick up on a part of the work.
In a suspension bridge, the cable bottom is of use, through the channel...

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