Do you think there would be any interest in me putting
together an XL spreadsheet with some of the std
engineering calculations built in so the user could just
change the input values, in labeled fields, to get the
answers?  I'm a bit leery of this because certainly some

"Kevin R. Walsh" wrote:

I have these all done by Prof. Alex Slocum from MIT (back when I was
there) He has all of the beam bending, bearing loads, Hertzian contact,
etc etc etc.  They are generally very well done.  I think I am allowed
to send them out to people, as long as I give credit to Alex.  Let me
e-mail him and I will get back to you.  If I remember right there are
over 10 seperate sheets for different aspects of mechanical design.

=====
Kevin Russert Walsh
Process & Equipment Development Engineer

Bill Freeman wrote:

Sounds good, the only question I might have is the intended audience
may be different, so there may need to be some additional explanation,
and idiot-proofing.  Of course idiot-proofing is quite difficult because
idiots are quite ingenious!    :-)  No offense intended to our user
community.

Bill

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