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Stepped Shaft: Pre-Analysis and Start-Up

Pre-Analysis

It is recommended that you make some back-of-the-envelope estimates of expected results before launching into your computer solution. Here
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for which the following formula for the axial stress concentration factor, K, holds (Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Warren C. Young and Richard G. Budynas, 2002):
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We'll compare the above axial stress concentration factor to the value obtained from ANSYS.