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Consider a curved thin wire that is initially unstressed and that has a uniform cross section. A thin wire can be defined as a wire in which the maximum characteristic length of the cross section, that is, its diameter or diagonal, etc., is small compared to the length of the wire and the radius of curvature of the centerline of the wire.
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Costello, G.A. (1990). Equilibrium of a Thin Wire. In: Theory of Wire Rope. Mechanical Engineering Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0350-3_2
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