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High school student here
I am designing an experiment to test the effect of temperature on the torque required to twist a piece of metal, and need some advice on where to start researching. What I need help with is A) finding a table of the torque required to twist steel when cold, and B) finding some equation/principle/law that relates the temperature of the metal to the torque required to turn it.
Answers to questions that will probably be asked:
1. I plan to use mild steel, probably annealed if I can get it
2. I can go very high heat wise, and plan to use a laser thermometer to measure the temperature of the metal
3. I will be using a setup that uses weights to produce torque, and that isolates the motion to only rotational (as opposed to bending downwards)
4. I am open to any neccessary/beneficial changes to the experiment, any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
5. I don't have an endless money tree so any reccomendations of buying some huge expensive torsion testing machine will be fruitless.
6. I probably have screwed up some of the terminology, sorry in advance, tell me if I did.
I am designing an experiment to test the effect of temperature on the torque required to twist a piece of metal, and need some advice on where to start researching. What I need help with is A) finding a table of the torque required to twist steel when cold, and B) finding some equation/principle/law that relates the temperature of the metal to the torque required to turn it.
Answers to questions that will probably be asked:
1. I plan to use mild steel, probably annealed if I can get it
2. I can go very high heat wise, and plan to use a laser thermometer to measure the temperature of the metal
3. I will be using a setup that uses weights to produce torque, and that isolates the motion to only rotational (as opposed to bending downwards)
4. I am open to any neccessary/beneficial changes to the experiment, any and all advice is greatly appreciated.
5. I don't have an endless money tree so any reccomendations of buying some huge expensive torsion testing machine will be fruitless.
6. I probably have screwed up some of the terminology, sorry in advance, tell me if I did.