Paul,

It appears that there is some missing text. The sentence just prior to the figure 11-35 is not complete.
"Fillets with noncircular contours are slightly better than fillets with"

Ray Hellstrom

Thanks. I'll fix it tomorrow.

should read; "a fixed radius but are not usually practicable except for large crankshafts."

There is a lot more in  Taylor's book.

For those of you with an engineering degree or equivalent Taylor's
series of books is the best there is. The bible of engine design.

The Internal Combustion Engine in Theory and Practice.

Volume 1: Thermodynamics, Fluid Flow, Performance. Second Edition
Revised.

Volume 2: Combustion, Fuels, Materials, Design. Revised. Charles
Fayette Taylor. The MIT Press Cambridge Massachusetts, and London
England.


Paul Lamar

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