The elastic performance brings an appropriate flexibility and a restoring force for installing and maintaining the routing arrangement of the control cable which is widely used as machine elements for transmitting load and displacement. On the other hand, the non-linear elastic performance has also made it difficult to design the control cable theoretically. In this study, we considered the method of the elastic analysis for the construction with non-linear stiffness property, such as a control cable and its application for the actual design. Then, we obtained following conclusions.
(1) We developed the precise FEA model for the construction with various non-linear stiffness property.
(2) We developed the method to predict the routing arrangement, the performance and the durability performance.
(3) This developed simulation technology have been widely used in our company as the optimal and the low-cost design method in the early stage of vehicle's development.