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Glanced through the paper quickly, couldn't find _any_ references to elasticity or strain, just the breaking stress. I would have thought that would be in the c

Glanced through the paper quickly, couldn't find _any_ references to elasticity or strain, just the breaking stress. I would have thought that would be in the calculations somewhere, considering this thing would be a quarter of a million miles long! Maybe I'm just being a killjoy . . .

jacquesm 7y ago
Think of the breaking stress as the harder problem to solve.
- inetknght 7y ago
  Breaking stress would cause catastrophic failure, for sure. Nonetheless when you're talking _hundreds of miles_ of cable, elasticity can make for some fairly profound failure modes too.