Sentence examples for umbilical cable from inspiring English sources

About a fetus inside a pregnant woman, she writes, "It drifts free, like an astronaut on his umbilical cable; glowing, weightless; with pads for fingers, and plumlike, radioactive eyes".

The umbilical cable might get entangled.

Its only other tether is a thick umbilical cable plugged into its back.

On separation, mothership and lander will be out of contact because the umbilical cable that has joined them for the past 10 years will have been dropped in the ejection process.

Firstly, the geometrically exact beam element was used to obtain the two-dimensional nonlinear finite element model of umbilical cable, and the continuous dynamics model of the compensator was built and discretized to one finite element, and then inserted as the first element of the whole model.

They're already bumping into each other because they normally work solo while tied to a ship by a mile long umbilical cable.

They also may be placed in waterproof housings attached to umbilical cables as long as 150 feet (45 metres) to conduct underwater search operations.

This diffuser is connected to a pulsed nitrogen/dye laser via specially developed underwater optical fibre umbilical cables.

This paper presents formulations and a solution for the response of umbilical cables and flexible pipes subjected to monotonic loading of tension, torque, internal and external pressures.

The umbilical cables are designed to have a small bending radius, and can be easily adapted for a variety of calibration sources in SNO.

In addition to the infrastructure uses, TaraTape's products are also used to bind "umbilical" cables in offshore oil rigs to deliver power from the rig to the deep-sea drilling operations.