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Originally Posted by sanddrag
One way to figure this out is to tell us specifically what you are trying to do/make and tell us specifically what material you have in mind and we'll tell you if it is a good choice or not.  |
Good thinking
What we'd like to do is create a few portions of an arm. We haven't decided specifics yet, but the worst loads would be that it would be a box aluminum tube of 5ft pivoting on one end and lifting a tetra on the other. The pivot would be connected to a stationary piece of similar aluminum, attached to the chassis. This stationary piece would likely go under the greatest stess. Assuming interference with other objects (e.g. robots), we're wondering what our options are - is this stuff even strong enough that we can use it to a lesser degree?
Being that we don't have the engineers or engineering skills to calculate things properly, I was hoping someone would come forward who uses this stuff on their bot and say "oh, yeah, 1/16 is all the strength you need" or something like that. But if you guys have a mathematical way to do it, by all means. I'll gladly teach my team what you come up with.
Thanks!