| Re: Rim brake heat and spoke tension
nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> writes:
> 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?
Do you recall who they were? I don't. I also don't recall
seeing any followup to that, that is, whether they actually
built the models.
Joe
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