>The elbow, now in
>this new higher stresses state, will expreince local yielding or deformation
>which will reduce the stresses in the elbow.
Don't forget that the plastic strain accumulates for ongoing cycles. The
elbow probably won't fail on the first cycle, but there may be fatigue
problems down the road.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant from chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen. ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw Received on Sat Apr 20 11:34:00 2002
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