Reducing
Stress Concentrations |
- One of the benefits of casting is the design flexibility in
shaping features in the casting.
- Two important design principles in casting are --
- Round corners and edges generously to reduce stress
concentrations.
- Reduce the size of isolated thick sections or provide
gradual transitions between sections of different thickness.
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The casting engineer will always review
the component design looking for those features which have:
-- sharp corners
and fillets
-- isolated, thick sections. |
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