Hey Ric, Are you referring to Young's Modulus (Y)? Have you checked out The Calculating Technician by Dave Roberts? I think there is info in his book that might be useful. Alan -- Alan McCoy, RPT Eastern Washington University amccoy at mail.ewu.edu 509-359-4627 > From: RicB <ricb at pianostemmer.no> > Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>" <caut at ptg.org> > Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:17:16 +0100 > To: <caut at ptg.org> > Subject: [CAUT] String stiffness questions > > Hi Folks > > I'm continuing, along with Jason Kanter and a couple others work on a > scaling spreadsheet and I have run into a stump I'm having trouble > locating information directly relating to the string stiffness factor > for various wire. Dels Handout has one formula in it which seems to > contain an error and I have a couple working spreadsheets that contain > formulas but no way compensating for different kinds of wire. > > What I need is a brief explanation of the numerical constants used in > the formula, and what values different kinds of string materials use so > that we can set up an options value that automatically inserts the > proper value in relevant formulas. > > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > Cheers > RicB >
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