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Steel Tubing Calculator



This calculator does a variety of things: it calculates the weight of a butted steel frame tube along with an indexed measure of the tube's flexibility and the amount that the tube will deflect with a given load. It also draws a cut-away diagram of the tube which you can see if you're using the Firefox browser. And there are calculations for tensile strength of the material based on both the Rockwell B and C hardness scales.

To use it all you need to do is modify the numbers. Change the length, make the butts thicker or thinner. And so on.

diameter length
butt1 taper1 center taper2 butt2
wall1 centerwall wall2
load(kg)
Rockwell B UTS:  ksi       Rockwell C     UTS:  ksi  
 weight:  g

 flexibility index:

 deflection: mm


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