Steel Definition and 802 Threads

I am a chemical engineer, not a physicist, so I am a bit rusty on my electromagnetics. I need to set up a fluctuating magnetic field inside of a stainless steel tube (hopefully using a pair of electromagnets outside the tube), and I am wondering if the field will penentrate through the tube...

I have a steel block (2.75m x 1.6m x 0.5m) sat at 1000°C in ambient air (22°C) How long will it take for a surface to drop to say 800°C should i use the heat transfer eq: Q=KA\DeltaT to find the power in joules per second, then transpose to find seconds somehow? Any help will be...

Homework Statement Find the final velocity of a 5g steel ball bearing being pulled by a neodymium magnet with a pull force of 6.1 pounds (27.1 Newtons) in a straight line on a frictionless surface after being pulled for .1 meters Homework Equations F=MA The Attempt at a Solution f=ma...

Homework Statement From this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mdZo_keUoEs#t=77s it shows that the steel rod will eventually stay in the middle of the solenoid. At first the magnetic field of the solenoid would look like...

Hello, For my Mechanical Engineering project, I'm working on a wind tower. One of the specifications we have to respect is a 50 years resistance to sunlight. We've chosen inox steel as the primary material (after calculating the various constraints due to the wind the the rotor up on the...

Homework Statement I meet a problem below: To check if the angle :200x150x12 S275 Grade can take a twist of 30kNm (on plan ) with Span 3m fixed end connected. Homework Equations θ = T L / J G The Attempt at a Solution My question is that even I got the angle of twist for this...

Hi I'm a high school student and need help with the calculations for a bike design. I am required for the design to use 1.5" mild steel square tubing at 1/16" thick for it. I need to know what the strength of the tubing is before i can make or tweak the design. Can anyone help with my predicament?

I am trying to do a problem on Material Non-linearity , to model steel for large deformation , beyond yield point , I have tensile testing data for the steel ( in form of Engineering stress vs Engineering strain). for defining the model , I chose Multilinear Isotropic hardening now there...

Homework Statement We have a steel rod with density ρ = 7,90 kg/m^3. When it's horizontally on the floor, it's length is L = 6,00m. The rods surface area A is a circle with radius r=0,04m. Steel has Young modulus E=2,1 \cdot 10^{11} Now the rod is lifted up so it's vertically straight...

Tata Steel sheds 580 jobs in Wales, with several sites to close.. This doesn't sound too well: Is this the tip of the iceberg?

is there any acid or base or any other chemical which can dissolve carbon particles or tar but will not effect alloys like steel.

I'm trying to build a vacuum chamber for chemistry purposes. This isn't exactly for school, but it's something I'm doing for fun and it's close enough to a school problem. Anyway, my vacuum chamber will be a prism 24" wide, 18" deep, and 18" in height. It will also have a 8"x6" Plexiglas window...

not sure if I am in the right place or not but nevertheless need some help I am trying to figure the correct steel to use for sign support. I am trying to determine if a 5 x 5 inch with .25 wall is as strong or stronger than a 6 x inch tube with a 3/16 wall. Can't find any formulas to help...

I am currently working on a project to determine how much weight a mild steel shelving units can support. This is a project for a friend and for my own interest. I am having trouble deciding exactly what is necessary to determine the weight the shelving units will hold. Each shelf on the unit...

Homework Statement QUESTION 2 (Total 20 marks) Figure 4 below shows a diagrammatic section of the floor of a typical house suspended over a garage. The steel beam shown in section spans 7.2 metres centre to centre of supports. The floor, including an allowance for the self weight of...

I heard a rumor from some people at a scrap yard that it's impossible to sepperate copper from stainless steel, and that the copper ruins the stainless steels structual integrety. Is there any truth to this?

This is my problem: I need to design a pipeline distribution system for steam service. But is thought in order to inject high P, high T steam into oil wells (upstream industry). Inlet conditions into the pipeline will be 650 ºF, 1900 psi. Pipes are several km long, and, because it is a network...

I'm designing a patio which is connected to a house on one side, 8m x 2.4m 150 x 50 x 3mm steel tubing around the outside with 140 x 50 hardwood purlins, spaced at 1m intervals (2.4m long each). I would like to span the 8m with only posts on the ends. Is this possible or will there be to...

Hey guys, First off, I apologize if this is in the wrong section. I am currently an intern taking 6 months off from my senior year pursuing a mechanical engineering degree. Having not taken a heat transfer class yet, I am stumped as to how to go about tackling my latest project. Basically...

Where can I find the yield strength for AISI 1566 Carbon Steel? I tried googling it but I can't find a reliable value.

Why does aluminum "leech" into a water bottle, but stainless steel does not? My professor was saying that using aluminum water bottles will result in a small amount of aluminum ions dispersing into the water. Stainless steel, however, does not have this problem. Is this true? Why? I'm...

One can show that mass diffusion without chemical reactions obeys the same basic equation as heat conduction. The one dimensional equation in dimensionless variables is given by $$ D_{AB}\frac{\partial^2 C_A}{\partial x^2} = \frac{\partial C_A}{\partial t} $$ where C_A is the concentration...

hello, i am trying to calculate thermal stress on sphere, considering chage in temperature causes chage in volume of the sphere so needed volumatric expansion coefficient of steel; i have a data about mean coefficient of thermal expansion for 316ss..is there any way to calculate volumetric...

We have a design of stainless steel pipe with a bend radius of 1.5 The OD of the pipe is 47mm and the wall thickness is 3mm. Can anyone tell me if this is possible please? I am pretty sure the SS is austenitic. I thought that as a rule the minimum radius was 2. Thank you

Hi everyone, I have a part that's made of A2 Tool Steel (unknown HRC). It needs to be able to withstand a bending force, stress of approx. 700 MPa, without plastically deforming. Is there a method to heat treat it to be able to withstand that stress? TIA...

I'm doing some work on my house at the moment, and have had a design produced by a structural engineer for a steel I-beam to span a newly made (4 meter) opening in a brick wall. They've given me a design (see the attached picture for my interpretation) for the bearing of the I-beam which I...

I'm using the basic deflection equation to determine how thick a plate of steel would have to be to support a load of approximately 1300 N in a 3 point bend, with surface dimensions of of 420 x 630 mm. I = bh3/12; δ = FL3/(C1EI); Esteel = 200 GPa = 200 N/mm; δ = 50 mm (arbitrary); h3 =...

I am doing a simple steel ball drop test on glass to see if the glass passes the standards. We are dropping 1.18 inches (0.535kg) steel ball at the height of 51inches (1.295m). Now, I can calculate final velocity at the impact, but cannot calculate the actual impact force. One of the method...

Hi If I was to heat a steel rod that is brittle...then clamp it at both ends and allow it to cool to a certain lower temperature at which it breaks, how would I go about calculating the breaking stress of the steel. [ I know value of E and alpha] Thanks for any help you supply.

Homework Statement I have to list out some ways on how to determine the manganese content of a steel sample. The Attempt at a Solution I can only think of one right now, which is calorimetry...but I was wondering are there other simpler possible ways of determining it?

dear friends i have an application for pumping system it consists of 3 parallel pumps having a max head of 8 bars i have a stainless steel pipe has 8" diameter and sch 10 will this be suitable to be used under this pressure ?

1. Homework Statement mass of steel ball = 40g = .04 kg h1 = 2.00 m h2 = 1.60 m A steel ball is dropped from height of 2.00 m onto horizontal steel slab, rebounds to height of 1.60m. Calculate impulse of ball during impact. 2. Homework Equations impulse J = F*dt J = P2 - P1 K0...

I want to use a length of steel pipe as a communication medium. The pipe is about 20 feet long and the idea is to send some sort of signal along it that can be detected at the far end. I've had various ideas including using acoustic signals, or using the steel as an electrical conductor but I...

Hi! We are going to machine some stainless steel parts that will require hardening afterwards. The parts are going to be hardened in an oven at 600 degrees celcius for 4 hours and then air cooled. This procedure is given in the suppliers data sheet. Because I'm new in the game of...

A solid steel shaft is subjected to a torque of 45 KN/m. If the angle of twist is 0.5 degree per meter length of the shaft and the shear stress is not exceed 90 MN/m^2 (I) find the suitable diameter of the shaft . Take C = 80 GN/m^2 (II) Maximum shear strain we can solve the question by...

I need some help determining if a bar with increased length and loads is going to bend. The original length and loads were 1018 steel, 1 3/8 dia, 7.8" long with 480 lbs at one end and being supported with bearings at 2 locations 4.68" and 7.8" away. The new configuration is 1018 steel, 1 3/8...

Hello everyone! Chemistry is my hobby and I want to try a new method of synthesizing some compounds. It requires a use of a pipe bomb filled up to 3/4 of it's volume with an aqueous solution of reagents and heated to about 300 C. I'm a bit scared thou. Can a 1" steel pipe, about 2mm thick and...

Homework Statement What Force must be applied to a steel bar, 1in [25.4mm] square and 2ft [610mm] long, to produce an elongation of .016in. [.4064mm]? Homework Equations L=610mm ΔL=.4064mm E=29,000,000 The Attempt at a Solution What I know is: E=Stress/Strain...

A hydraulic steel tube of diameter 10mm and wall thickness 1.5mm has been bent to a radius of 100mm. Calculate the reverse radius of curvature that needs to be applied to straighten the tube. M/I= σ/Y = E/R I am really struggling on the above question. I think I need to read off the...

Homework Statement For my project I need to calculate the maximum height that a Steel Rope could achieve while being hung between the Earth and the Moon. Homework Equations Tensile Strength of Steel is: 500*10^6 E of steel is: 200*10^9 distance from the Moon to he Earth is 406700...

Homework Statement Alright, so I have this final project in physics which was due yesterday and I'm turning it in late because i have a problem with understanding one thing. so the project it about space elevators and the teacher asked me to make calculations about what is the maximum height...

a steel wire has an span of 800 meters,with weight of 1.44 kilograms per meter. how to determine then the actual tension force applied in both ends of the cable? assuming that both ends are in the same elevation. thanks..

I am working on designing a trailer that will hold a load of 350lbs on 2 centered posts. It needs to have a safety factor of 3, so 1050lbs plus trailer weight. I am trying to determine the size of Steel square tube I must use. Any advice on formulas or methods of determining this? I would...

Please redirect me to the appropriate forum if I have posted in the wrong place... This stuff is FAR over my head, and I need somebody with some real knowledge of thermodynamics and heat flow... I own a scuba dive shop and of course we compress air to very high pressure, on the order of 300...

hello friends, i am currently working on a project in which a steel rope is used to carry an object in a loop just like a chair lift. what i want to ask is what method can i adopt to make a joint of the rope that can pass through or over the pulleys and not de-track too. The rope diameter is 8...

Homework Statement I am required to conduct a thermal shock test where by a stainless steel object (complicated geometry) is to go from one tank of light oil at -55°C to another tank of the same light oil at +140°C, then back the -55°C tank. This is to be repeated 5000 times. In order to...

Homework Statement A false mud gate made of common steel for a damn is 6'6" wide, 21'1" tall, and 1/2" thick. Assume a constant density throughout. What is the required force to lift this gate if it were laying flat on the ground and a hoist was attached to the center of gravity? also where is...

Hey. This is my first post, I'm a Senior in Mechanical Engineering, I will help others as far as I can. I'm trying to solve the problem from the picture. The shaft is loaded with 2 transverse loads, 2 moments and 2 torques. The critical point is immediately to the left of "B". The material is...

Picture a game of hangman. You have a vertical pole, a horizontal bar extending out from the pole and then the poor guy being slowing hanged hanging at the end of the horizontal bar. I'm trying to calculate much weight the pole can support before it bends. Well, actually I'm trying to hang a...

I was wondering if anyone knew of the potential downsides of using this material to replace a piece of 1/4 low carbon steel that is decaying and is a backing plate inside a hull of a 28 foot sailboat. I would be replacing it with 1/2" G10/FR4 fiberglass board minimum and could go to 3/4 inch if...