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    Determining bearing pressure between mating convex and concave conical surfaces?

    I asked this same thing on the engineering StackExchange community several days ago. (In the illustration above, the "Collet" piece in the middle is a bushing) I'm designing an axial linkage of sorts, and I'm having trouble finding resources, theorems, or guidelines for determining the...
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    RE: How can Rupture Allowable Stress be Less than Creep Allowable?

    Additional info for (closed) thread367-305865 Original Poster: PSSC A likely reason for the discrepancy/confusion could be that rupture tests and creep tests are carried out in a fundamentally different way-- namely, the strain rates employed. Creep testing is done with sensitive strain...

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