If a rope has broken rope components, the rope analysis is linearized by discretizing the rope into a series of two-noded axial-torsional elements.
Bog bodies have been variously found with cut throats, severed limbs, broken bones, ropes around the neck, entrails pulled through the skin, and other marks that suggest the possibility that they were ritually killed or murdered.
Down in Florida at Ringling Bros.' glorified breeding farm, baby elephants were taken from their mothers shortly after birth and broken with ropes, clubs, and solitude.
At the 86th Street stop of the B and C lines, on the Upper West Side, commuters hopped over puddles that filled entire stair treads, to be rewarded by the discovery that the tills were broken and roped off and the subway downtown was free.
The accident occurred when a chunk of ice from an ice pillar snapped on Friday, breaking fixed ropes on the area of the peak, just below the summit, known as the Bottleneck, according to expedition organizers.
They made a rope bridge using cables, ropes, broken doors and wooden poles and crossed the stream.
Repeated loading in tension, short of breaking the rope, will have no adverse effect on the rope strength.
It was clear, however, that both Mallory and Irvine had been involved in a serious fall that broke the rope which undoubtedly joined them.
"People who visit the zoo look at the elephant and wonder why it stands in the same place – with just a couple of shakes of its head it could break the rope and go free.
Of course an adult elephant with its tremendous strength is perfectly capable of breaking the rope, but since its experiences as a baby had convinced it otherwise, it never tries.
