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Sinuous Wire Form Equations

Sinuous Wire Form Equations

Sinuous Wire Form Equations

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Hey yall,

First post on this forum, i think im going to become a rather big fan of this place. So thanks again for taking the time for reading this.

Ok so basically my question is, my company is sort of diving into a new product that involves Sinuous wire forms (sine wave) the wire diameter varies but lets just say it is 0.125" diameter. and it's overall length is 36" long. I was wondering if there are any equations/formulas for putting load on the wire form axially and/or perpendicular to itself. right now we are just doing trial and error in order to hit our mark. So if there are please help.

Thanks again guys,

Jeff R.

RE: Sinuous Wire Form Equations

From that generic a description, no "pure theory" will be more useful than simple tests. And, in fact, simple testing will be more useful at almost all levels.

You have (apparently) a "net" or maybe a weave of these unknown dia, unknown weave displacement and characteristics, unknown density of wires/area. That weave or net is suspended by unknown stiffness - probably around its circumference, maybe at only a few points. Once suspended, a load is imposed of unknown density, mass, unknown area/total area of the net, total size with respect tot he weave. At an unknown impact or dynamic.

So, what happens?

Don't know. Did you drop a cannonball into a hammock suspended at both ends by a between two palm trees? Or a ping pong ball into a window screen supported all the way around, or a bowling ball into a wire chickenwire mesh, or a dump truck mass of sand and gravel into a grading sieve ?

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