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  1. alliedeng

    best metal for eyebolt in corrosive enviroment

    Thanks for all the replies. Just as an update the eye bolt is set on a swivel so that the load is always perpendicular to the load. The shear face of the bolt had a typical flaw at one of the treads due to corrosion. Luckily the other eyebolt did not have any corrosion and saved the bike from...
  2. alliedeng

    best metal for eyebolt in corrosive enviroment

    what kind of corrosion? water causing rust what kind of environment? steel bolt on steel bracket What is the mating material? Motorcycle trailer tiedown What material is your current eyebolt? I presume grade 2, manufacturer doesn't know How long was it in service 2 years desired service...
  3. alliedeng

    best metal for eyebolt in corrosive enviroment

    I have an eyebolt that sheared off because of corrosion in one of the treads. The eyebolt was a Turned Eye Bolt (TEB) ½ x 2. I want the strongest metal that can resist corrosion because of this failure. What metal would be best for this application?
  4. alliedeng

    Excel picture in sheet

    I am interested in putting an image of a tank in an excel sheet and showing how full it is in cell A1 on the image. This will show the user how much the tank is full. Can anyone direct me to how I might do this??
  5. alliedeng

    Fire scenario for Pressure relief

    I have a series of tanks to size PRVs. There is only one that stores a flamable material. Some of the tanks are far (200-300 ft) away and I would like to eliminate the fire case scenario for those tanks. Can anyone direct me to a reference on distance limitation to remove the Fire case...
  6. alliedeng

    Basic FEA program in Basic

    Thanks all. I have developed a series of mathematical routines for VB. I mostly work in Fortran on Unix machines so this is just what I want. Now just to get some time to do the convert. I'll try to put on website when done. steve
  7. alliedeng

    Basic FEA program in Basic

    I use Abaqus in my daily work and would like to build my own FEA program in Visual Basic. I know it will not have anywhere the capability, flexibility, or convergence but I want to have a smaller program to solve small problems with out the LARGE cost of commercial FEA codes. Does anyone know...
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