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Material engineering question. What material to use as a horizontal torque situation, “shaft for auger”? (Example: the shaft material of a 20' soil scratcher) Would you use structural pipe or structural tubing?





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Regardless, I would use a material that is sufficiently strong for the application, and that meets whatever other unidentified requirements you may have.
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I was asking about what kind of material to be use for
sufficiently strong for the application, is tubing or is it pipe and what kind ?
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For a standard commercial grade pipe in carbon steel A53 gr. A is typically available where I am located.
EJL
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I was trying to see what works better for a auger shaft, pipe or tubing and there strenght properties.
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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From my experience as a fabricator, I found pipe to often have a straight seam which can fail; whereas tubing is usually made better, and of better stuff, and to closer tolerances. It just seems to me that tubing is better than pipe.
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And for torque applications a round tube is more efficient than square. Not that you can't use square - just that it will need to be bigger than the round for the same torque load.
ISZ