Related Carmagen article here: <a href="http://www.carmagen.com/news22.htm">http://www.carmagen.com/news22.htm</a>
> >Has there been any documented failure attributed to design oversight
> >related to the above subject?
> Local external loading, especially cyclic loading, is a source of fatigue
> failures. The most notorious instance I know of first hand was a while
> back in air receivers with the compressor mounted on the shell. The
> presence of high stress at attachments has been well known for at least
> 50 years--it was the motivation for Bijlaard's original work that went
> into WRC107.
>
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words of Gen.
> ___________________________| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania 1864)
> <a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw</a>
Received on Wed Jul 16 10:59:00 2003
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