Cross section shape optimization of wire strands subjected to purely tensile loads using a reduced helical model

Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences

Table 1 Requirements met by each model

	Analytical	Solid	Beam	Reduced
Axial response	✓	✓	✓	✓
Computational efficiency	✓	✗	✓	✓
Complex geometry	✗	✓	✗	✓
Bending response	✓	✓	✓	✗*

None of them is capable to fulfil all the requirements. * Bending stiffness approximated analytically (“Approximation of the bending stiffness section”)