A very simple cable is made up of a solid wire and a plastic sheath. This cable can bend and retains this bending – as long as you don’t bend it too often, as otherwise the wire breaks. Simple cables like these are used in house installations. Once permanently installed, the cable remains in place for decades untouched. Solid wires like these are not suitable for many other challenging applications where cables sometimes need to be extremely flexible and movable.
Find out what flexible and highly flexible cables are, how they differ, how they are constructed, what properties they have as well as when and where they are used.