Glad you pointed that out Nolan. I spent many a boring hour in the Physics
materials labs at school measuring all sorts of irritating things related to
Hook's Law, Young's Moduli and elastic limits for weird materials. Within the
elastic limit you can flex something almost an infinite number of times
without changing its strength or shape. Speed and temperature also play a big
part of this too.
Cheers,
Mark
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From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net on behalf of Nolan
Sent: Fri 30/12/2005 3:04 PM
To: Randall; Triumphs List
Subject: Re: Brake Caliper Conspiracy
That's not a true statement. Failure happens when you go into plastic
deformation. Simply flexing below that level doesn't result in failure.
That's why your cars springs sit there going "boing boing" without snapping.
Take your same paperclip and minutely flex it for the rest of your life.
You'll go to your grave without that paperclip having broken because you
never took it to plastic deformation.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Brake Caliper Conspiracy
> Now how many times does the entire caliper flex (yes, they flex, you can
measure
> it if you try) over it's lifetime ? If the caliper flexes, do the bolts
flex ?
> If they flex, they fatigue.
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