Sixteen chain cables were each composed of 935 iron bars, a total of 2,000 tons of wrought iron.
With his brother Camille he studied the principles of the suspension bridge, at that time built with chain cables.
A Union naval squadron of 43 ships under Admiral David G. Farragut entered the lower Mississippi near New Orleans and soon breached the heavy chain cables that were stretched across the river as a prime defense.
Floor conveyors use chain, cable, or other linkage mounted in or close to the floor in an endless track.
For the Royal Albert Bridge (1859) over the River Tamar at Saltash, England, designer Isambard Kingdom Brunel used a combination of tubular arch and chain cable.
Mooring patterns with 6, 9 and 12 chain cable and steel wire rope lines are considered.
I was especially feeling the XL chain-cable motif that was embroidered on most of the garments.
Strings, chains, and cables are rigid under tension but may collapse under compression.
Other tips: don't compact soil over a tree's roots, don't excavate near a tree you want to save (the roots spread two to three times the crown spread), don't change the grade of the soil around a tree and don't put chains or cables too tightly around the girth of a growing tree.
The catenary function has a well-known role in determining the shape of chains and cables supported at their ends under the force of gravity.
