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Re: Engineering Failure Analysis

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Originally Posted by indieFan View Post
The coach of the team and I were so serious about this solution that the following year, a college student was saying, "Let's use aluminum for the hub, it weighs less." We told him several times to use steel. We finally said that it was a lesson learned from last year. Then he gave in to using steel.

indieFan
Somebody can always spring for some titanium.
per www.matweb.com...
Code:
                     Yield          Density
Steel-1018              53700 psi    0.284 lb/in³
Titanium Ti-7Al-4Mo  150000 psi   0.162 lb/in³    
Alum- 2024-T6         50000 psi    0.1 lb/in³
Not sure if the titanium is a useful grade, but the point stands.
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