>just for my information, why cant u use the published values of the stress
>allowables based on the latest edition of the applicable ASME Code.
He's probably a little shaky about changes since 1977. In fact the design
stresses changed from UTS/4 to UTS/3.5 in 1999, but there weren't any
significant changes between then and the 50's, for the materials he was
interested in.
Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen. ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw Received on Fri Jul 19 11:33:00 2002
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