| Re: Rim brake heat and spoke tension
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 06:37:07 GMT, Joe Riel <joer@k-online.com> wrote:
[snip maths re: spoke tension vs. rim temp]
Following on from your (Joel) and Carl's brief dialogue,
ISTR that at least two people who frequent this group
have constructed FE models of the bicycle wheel
hub-spokes-rim, primarily to investigate the validity
of the "stands on its spokes" statement.
Maybe, if asked nicely, they could be persuaded to
superpose a thermal or equivalent initial strain loadcase
on the rim elements and report their findings thereafter?
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