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Suggest why a thin rod can bend more than thick rod without breaking
Suggest why a thin rod can bend more than thick rod without breaking
M/I is the same thing as the elastic modulus E divided by the radius of curvature. So as I said in my post, for the same radius of curvature, with two rods of the same material, the thicker one will have a larger bending stress because it has material elements further from the neutral axis.Because the bending stress depends on the distance between it's neutral axis (which is in the center for common shapes in the case of pure bending). So a thicker rod will experience larger maximum bending stress than a slim one when subject to forces of the same magnitude.
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same reason why a arc of small radius subtends a larger angle at center than a arc of same length and larger radiusSuggest why a thin rod can bend more than thick rod without breaking
Please elaborate on how this answers the OPs question in terms of the stress required to cause the rod to break.same reason why a arc of small radius subtends a larger angle at center than a arc of same length and larger radius