Thread: Surgical Tubing spring rate?
View Single Post
  #4   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 02-04-2008, 12:40
Jared Russell's Avatar
Jared Russell Jared Russell is offline
Taking a year (mostly) off
FRC #0254 (The Cheesy Poofs), FRC #0341 (Miss Daisy)
Team Role: Engineer
  
Join Date: Nov 2002
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 3,077
Jared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond reputeJared Russell has a reputation beyond repute
Re: Surgical Tubing spring rate?
I'll look it up, but it should be pretty easy to test if you have a sample.

Measure a length of surgical tubing, put a known weight on the end, and measure the length again.

F = kx

"x" is the difference in length with and without the weight.
"F" is the weight.

Solve for "k", keeping in mind your units.

EDIT: Just saw that you said you didn't have a sample. Nevermind then! I'm still looking.
Last edited by Jared Russell : 02-04-2008 at 12:43.