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| Topic | why does a bar with lots of weight(gym) on it seem to bend but not break. |
| adjl 01/10/20 12:31:14 PM #13: | Broadly, because steel manages to be a very strong material while still being malleable enough to avoid being brittle. This is why it's used so often for structural purposes: You need some flex to avoid having the whole thing shatter whenever a particularly strong force is applied. There's an entire industry built around tweaking steel's properties to optimize it for various applications, and the steel used in weight bars (at least high-quality ones) has been chosen to be optimal for the forces the bar will face. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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