METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CALCULATING WIRING ROUTE OF CONTROL CABLE

摘要

The present invention provides a method for predicting a routing arrangement for control cable without preparing experimental control cables. In the method according to the present invention, characteristics of a control cable to be laid are obtained (S1, S2, and S3). The characteristics of the control cable can be obtained by subjecting a test piece of control cable to a known test (tensile test). Next, a length of the control cable and a condition for connecting the control cable are provided as conditions for a computation (S4 and S5). Then, the given length of the cable, the given condition for connecting the cable, and the obtained characteristic of the control cable are used for a computation model, which was formed by dividing the control cable into a plurality of elements, in order to perform a finite element method, and, thus, a routing arrangement is calculated (S7). <??>According to this method, the routing arrangement for the control cable is calculated by performing the finite element method in the computation model formed by dividing the control cable into the plurality of elements. Therefore, the routing arrangement for the control cable can be predicted without preparing experimental control cables. <IMAGE>