amount of bend in metal

[myinisjap]

i was wondering how much this metal rod would bend when supported on both ends and it being 5 feet long it is on www.mcmaster.com part #
8893K486

[keebler303]

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
Tech a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.

this should help

http://www.aps.anl.gov/asd/me/Calcul...sticBeam2.html

modulus=29000000 psi for steel
moment of inertia=3.14*diameter^4/64 for a solid round
enter your length in inches
enter the point load as how much weight will be on it.
pick the loading case, 4 is the simplest.
hit go

or are you looking for just the deflection of the rod with no load?
then you need case 23
set q to the weight per inch=volume*density=3.14*d^2/4*.283

Matt

[myinisjap]

wow it took me a sec to figure out all the stuff but wow that made it easy now my next question what is an acceptable amount of deflection or should i aim for zero?

[keebler303]

thats up to you. Whatever you can tolerate will be your limit. It all depends on what you are building and what you are making.

Matt