I figured as much I'm looking more for like a ball park figures, but I may have come up with something today that will work for me.
Thanks for responding guys.
I would like to come up with and equation so i could calculate the force for any thickness (the wedge will always be wider than the material being cut), and the material would grade 8 steel.
I'm trying to Figure how to calculate the force needed to be applied to a wedge to split a piece of metal. The metal would be sitting on a flat surface and not constrained in any way (other than the surface it is sitting on) and the wedge would be coming straight down on it. The piece of metal...
