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Old 09-01-2012, 07:26 PM
Frank Reiner Frank Reiner is offline
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Re: Stiffness

Although the area of the 16.5mm bar is 30% greater than the 14.5mm bar, torsional stiffness varies as the 4th power of the diameter. Hence, the 16.5 bar has a stiffness that is 1.677 times that of the 14.5 bar!
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