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Old 01-14-2011, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by leathermang View Post
Each coil in the spring will respond to its PORTION of the full load on the spring.. even his math agrees with that..
Each coil does not ' see' the 100 lbs... but only ( in the 10 coil example ) one tenth of the 100 lb load...
Consider a series of sewer pipes, placed end to end, with sewage flowing through it at a constant rate, higher at one end than the other. The decrease in sewage height (head loss) due to friction is cumulative from one end to the other- (Ref. First Law of Civil Engineering). The head loss is distributed evenly between sections, but the full amount of sewage goes through each pipe. The principal is the same- loss is distributed through serial elements, load is distributed through parallel elements.
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