CANTILEVER HOOK CALCULATOR
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Performance Characteristics

Equations for Cantilever Beam Calculation
 
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Feature Drawing

Label for Cantilever Hook
 
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How to Use This Calculator

1. Select a material that you want to use for the calcuation by double clicking on the
name of material from "List of Materials" or enter your own material property values.

2. Select the units for your calculation.

3. Enter the geometric parameters for your cantilever hook.

4. Press Display button to see the results

How to Add/Remove/Save Material Properties to a Text File

Add - Enter a name, friction coefficient, yield stress, and young's modulus. Then
press Add button.

Remove - Click on the name of the material that you want to delete from the file and
press Remove button.

Save - Press Save button to save all the material properties that are shown in the
"List of Materials" to a text file.
(Note: Due to the web browser security, users will not be able to save material
          property data.)
 
 
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Contact Info:  Dean Q. Lewis
                       Integral Fastening Program
                       Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                       Department of Mechanical Engineering,
                       Aeronautical Engineering, and Mechanics
                       Troy, NY 12180-3590
Created by:    Jung S. Oh
References:    Anthony F. Luscher, An Investigation into
                       the Performance of Cantilever Hook-Type Integral
                       Features, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
                       Ph.D. thesis, Troy, NY, August 1995.
 
                       Keith N. Knapp, Experimental Characterization
                       of the In-Plane Cantilever Hook, Rensselaer
                       Polytechnic Institute, M.S. thesis, Troy, NY,
                       August 1994.
 
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