I find this very fascinating.
Any Idea what type of information regarding the ropes or cables I would need in order to plug them into the formula? e.g. would Young's modulus be in the specification or is that something that is derived from other data?
What would be the best spec to use in...
Thank you all for your comments.
I only need the loads on each rope as an estimate;
Thus the load can be idealized as a non-deformable sphere providing, therefore, a center of mass at the theoretical verticies of all four ropes within the load, cartisian coordinate 0,0,0.
The ropes as...
This is why I find math difficult.
I suspect that if I hang a weight from four ropes - emmenating from from various angles, and measure the load on each rope, each individual rope has a single load on it.
So in reality, the four ropes settle into a single unique solution, but in math it is...
I need to find a means to calculate the load on three or four ropes that are supporting a weight between them. These ropes radiate from the load at various angles, typically non-planer. The attached illustration shows a three rope example with the individual ropes, yellow, green, blue...