Why Steel Cables Are Able To Bend

Why Steel Cables Are Able To Bend

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Cables are able to bend because of their twist. The strands and wires are on the inside AND the outside, so the pulling force and compressing forces cancel each other out! That’s why they are made of solid steel and still pliable!

44 Comments

  1. @crazynedry5085 on January 28, 2024 at 4:24 pm

    Yea

    That just straight up makes sence

    Love it



  2. @soberhippie on January 28, 2024 at 4:27 pm

    Is that a real British accent? Sounds a bit fake



  3. @gibbon0220 on January 28, 2024 at 4:28 pm

    This is not the only reason why steel cables are made this way.



  4. @benwilms3942 on January 28, 2024 at 4:29 pm

    Its also because to accomodate this they can move helically with kinewatic freedom. Just saying, if it were a twisted monolith, it still wouldn’t bend very well.



  5. @ydhamitch7971 on January 28, 2024 at 4:32 pm

    This also applies to electrical wires. Twisted just gives more strength and flexibility pretty much no matter the material in question



  6. @niklausrupai1341 on January 28, 2024 at 4:32 pm

    Twisting of the wires is 99% of the time to reduce noise and interference



  7. @Antifurrythe3rd on January 28, 2024 at 4:33 pm

    I heard "ding bong bling kong bing bing bong blim blim gonk*



  8. @NotchaBizness on January 28, 2024 at 4:37 pm

    News flash: if you take solid wires and stack then bend them, they still bend just fine.



  9. @WIld-cHILd-1273 on January 28, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    It makes so much sense, whoever thought of this first definitely had a big brain moment



  10. @jonpaul9514 on January 28, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    I was the first to come up with this.



  11. @Samirgaming69 on January 28, 2024 at 4:41 pm

    School❌ YouTube ✅



  12. @lionrock2023 on January 28, 2024 at 4:42 pm

    the wire would separate otherwise.



  13. @maineguy342 on January 28, 2024 at 4:45 pm

    Finally I know what makes it bendy



  14. @Ty420 on January 28, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    Because I let them



  15. @EOE808 on January 28, 2024 at 4:48 pm

    Is this similar to phase cancelation?



  16. @sponggg_7096 on January 28, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    I wouldn’t say that the forces cancel out, rather the force required to compress the inner side is provided by the stretching force on the other side, which means you only need enough energy to bend the wire, and then most of the energy required to deform it will be provided from an opposite force somewhere else on the cable.



  17. @nxone9903 on January 28, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    cray



  18. @bluesteelgaming2883 on January 28, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    This answers a question O never knew I had.



  19. @RajKumar-mh4pz on January 28, 2024 at 4:50 pm

    Genius



  20. @jsduntitled on January 28, 2024 at 4:50 pm

    WHAT! That’s so cool I had no idea!



  21. @JuicyDuckie on January 28, 2024 at 4:50 pm

    man



  22. @ScarbroughIsaiah on January 28, 2024 at 4:52 pm

    That is not how that works



  23. @walteravila4753 on January 28, 2024 at 4:53 pm

    Learning this type of info is actually cool



  24. @daniaawni5180 on January 28, 2024 at 4:54 pm

    that’s how endodontic files are made!



  25. @martingo2680 on January 28, 2024 at 4:54 pm

    Finally



  26. @gregkocher5352 on January 28, 2024 at 4:56 pm

    Wire rope, never saddle a dead horse.



  27. @MrHurricaneFloyd on January 28, 2024 at 4:56 pm

    The forces do NOT cancel out. The forces try to untwist the cable.



  28. @seaaniiee9081 on January 28, 2024 at 5:01 pm

    It also sorts of self bind



  29. @huybach1842 on January 28, 2024 at 5:04 pm

    "I know this, my teacher just explained it. The design is intended so that when lightning strikes near a power line, it will create an electromagnetic induction effect and generate a rotating magnetic field. At that moment, the two twisted wires will produce two opposite magnetic fields that cancel each other out."



  30. @f00m29 on January 28, 2024 at 5:05 pm

    Man human ingenuity is so amazing



  31. @alisardar8613 on January 28, 2024 at 5:06 pm

    But there still should be tension on the wires

    Shouldn’t it?



  32. @xx6489 on January 28, 2024 at 5:07 pm

    Now that was an interesting factoid….



  33. @crittereqg on January 28, 2024 at 5:11 pm

    The forbidden twizzler



  34. @srgwarcock on January 28, 2024 at 5:12 pm

    If Tik Tok has videos like this, I’d still have an account with them.



  35. @Aegis4521 on January 28, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    Even the simplest of things have such amazing engineering behind them



  36. @Alexorier on January 28, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    Bendy? Bendy and the ink machine? Ink? Bendy?



  37. @JRTO_X on January 28, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    Name of the song?



  38. @ShinnZaw on January 28, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    What accent is this?



  39. @paulrobles1263 on January 28, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    wow



  40. @frankypras on January 28, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    Zoooo stone kool



  41. @GooberTheIII on January 28, 2024 at 5:16 pm

    If this dude and kurgesagt ruled the world we would be an interstellar species by now. But hey atleast we have memes



  42. @klutz2974 on January 28, 2024 at 5:19 pm

    This feels like a JADOKAR short in 3D



  43. @Nishandh_Mayiladan on January 28, 2024 at 5:20 pm

    Really ? doesnt sound fully logical.



  44. @ElN246 on January 28, 2024 at 5:20 pm

    Somehow physics is more useful in daily life than it appears