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I greatly appreciate the thoughtful response and logical walk-through. Do you know how I could represent this mathematically? Maybe to simplify my question, assuming there is no slot, how does just varying the height of the walls of the Morse taper influence the stress on the male component...

Thanks for the responses. The element at the bottom of the male component is there just represent that the end of the male component is often in contact with bone (walls of the medullary canal). In some cases one could probably neglect that support of the bottom of the male component was not...

Perhaps the edited illustration more clearly depicts the loading...

I'm specifically looking at modular hip implants and some existing designs where corrosion by-products have been noted in the morse taper. There have been reports of failures of the male components within the taper junction (not associated with stress concentrations due to corrosion), but never...

Hi All, I really need some help understanding bending stresses and stress concentrations in Morse Tapers. Specifically, I'm trying to understand the influence of a slot (and orientation of the slot) in the female component of a Morse Taper when the male component is subject to bending. I've...

Wow, that was quite the find...thanks very much for your time.

Thank you. As I research this more and more, I think really trying to understand the circumferential stresses that occur in the thin walls of a tube during bending when the tube has ovalized, then when the tube has buckled. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Greetings, can someone either direct me to a previous post (I've searched, but not found answers) or help simply answer the following?: 1) Do thin-walled tubes experience hoop stresses when subjected to bending? (tube is open at both ends - no pressure) 2) Are hoop stresses only present in...