Dictionary of Civil Engineering: English-French

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
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.