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- From: ae505@yfn.ysu.edu (Frank Krygowski)
- Subject: Re: Phil Wood hubs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.055254.14564@news.ysu.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:52:54 GMT
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- For a solid axle, strength increases as the cube of the diameter.
- The formula for the safety factor ... ignoring stress concentration
- ... would be:
- Sy * pi * D^3
- FS = ------------------
- 32 * M
-
- Sy is yield stress, D^3 is diameter cubed, M is bending moment.
- This is a quick & dirty first look, since you'd really be interested
- in shock loads and/or fatigue, but the equation is good for steady
- loads. Anyway, double the diameter, and the axle is 8 times stronger.
- (Also 4 times heavier.)
-
- For a hollow one, it's more complicated, 'cause you get to play
- around with both the inside and outside diameters. The similar
- formula would be:
-
- Sy * pi * (Do^4 - Di^4)
- FS = ----------------------------
- 32 * M * Do
-
- where Do & Di are outside and inside diameters. It's not a straight
- proportion, because of that difference in diameters to the fourth
- power, but the general idea is the same. Strength is roughly
- proportional to the cube of the diameter. Of course, weight
- goes up unless you make the walls thinner.
-
- Frank Krygowski ae505@yfn.ysu.edu
-