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    Material For Table Legs

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    The document discusses material requirements for slender table legs that must support a glass tabletop without buckling. It analyzes two objectives: 1) minimizing mass, and 2) maximizing slenderness, while considering two constraints: resistance to buckling and resistance to fracture. Various material classes are evaluated and eliminated based on their stiffness, density, and toughness. The analysis determines that carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite is the optimal material that can achieve the desired slim design while supporting loads without breaking.

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    The document discusses material requirements for slender table legs that must support a glass tabletop without buckling. It analyzes two objectives: 1) minimizing mass, and 2) maximizing slenderness, while considering two constraints: resistance to buckling and resistance to fracture. Various material classes are evaluated and eliminated based on their stiffness, density, and toughness. The analysis determines that carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite is the optimal material that can achieve the desired slim design while supporting loads without breaking.

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    The document discusses material requirements for slender table legs that must support a glass tabletop without buckling. It analyzes two objectives: 1) minimizing mass, and 2) maximizing slenderness, while considering two constraints: resistance to buckling and resistance to fracture. Various material classes are evaluated and eliminated based on their stiffness, density, and toughness. The analysis determines that carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite is the optimal material that can achieve the desired slim design while supporting loads without breaking.

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    The document discusses material requirements for slender table legs that must support a glass tabletop without buckling. It analyzes two objectives: 1) minimizing mass, and 2) maximizing slenderness, while considering two constraints: resistance to buckling and resistance to fracture. Various material classes are evaluated and eliminated based on their stiffness, density, and toughness. The analysis determines that carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composite is the optimal material that can achieve the desired slim design while supporting loads without breaking.

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    Material for table legs

    A furniture designer wants to


    design a lightweight table consists
    of a flat sheet of toughened glass
    supported on slender, unbraced
    cylindrical legs

    The legs must be solid (to make them slender) and as light as possible (to
    make the table easier to move), and must support the applied design load
    (the table top and whatever is placed upon it) without buckling and fracture
    if struck.

    This is a problem with two objectives:


    1. mass is to be minimized, and
    2. slenderness maximized

    There are two constraints:


    resistance to buckling and resistance to fracture

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    Minimizing mass

    The objective function:

    subject to the constraint that it supports a load F without buckling

    The critical elastic buckling load Fcrit of a column of length L and radius r is given by
    the Euler’s formula:

    Solving for the free variable, r,


    and substituting it into the equation for m gives:

    The material index to maximize:

    M1 = E1/2/r 5 GPa1/2 / (Mg/m3)

    Selected Area

    E1/3/r

    E1/2/r

    E/r

    Polymers are out:


    They are not stiff enough
    Metals too:
    They are too heavy

    10
    M1 5 GPa1/2 / (Mg/m3)

    E1/3/r

    E1/2/r

    E/r
    11 Materials Selected
    1. LD foam
    2. Soft and hard woods
    3. Bamboo
    4. Papers and cardboard
    5. CFRP composite
    6. Technical ceramics

    Slenderness

    Inverting this equation with Fcrit set equal to F gives an equation for the thinnest leg
    that will not buckle:

    The material index:

    i.e., the thinnest leg is that made of the material with the largest value of the modulus
    M1 = 5 GPa1/2 / (Mg/m3)

    Selected Area

    M2 = 100 GPa

    E1/3/r

    E1/2/r

    E/r

    Natural materials and


    foams are out:
    They are not stiff enough

    M1 = 5 GPa1/2 / (Mg/m3)

    Selected Area

    M2 = 100 GPa

    E1/3/r

    E1/2/r
    7 Materials Selected
    1. CFRP composite E/r
    2. Technical ceramics

    12
    If the legs must be really thin,
    then the shortlist is reduced to CFRP and ceramics
    They give legs that weigh the same as the wooden ones but are barely half as thick

    Table legs are exposed to abuse—they get knocked and kicked

    Common sense suggests that an additional constraint is needed,


    that of adequate toughness.

    This can be done using K1C – E chart; it eliminates ceramics, leaving CFRP,
    although the cost of CFRP may cause the Snr.

    Ceramics, being brittle, have low values of fracture toughness.

    Selected Area

    Gc = K1C2 / E 1 kJ/m2

    Engineering ceramics are out:


    K21c
    They are not tough enough
    E

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