Our Friend Harold
Harold Hunt Demarest was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey on the 4th of July 1911. He attended Montclair Academy in Montclair, New Jersey. Harold became an Eagle Scout in 1928. He graduated from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania with a degree in business and economics. In 1934 he joined his father’s business, the Charles H. Demarest Company...
Stress Curves 102
I hope that you will find this paper more than just another version of “Stress Curves Revisited”. Most makers who look at one of the many examples of Stress Curves sort of shake their head wondering what it is they are really looking at and how they can apply it to the rod taper it is suppose to represent. Some people say they can visualize the rod taper and see how the rod will perform from the curve and some will even say they can design a rod, or at least modify one with it. Maybe they can, but if they say this they are giving you only half of the information, because a Stress Curve represents a taper under a very specific set of conditions and these conditions are not usually stated, which means the SC has no reference point and therefore means nothing to you. Let me first try to clarify exactly what it is you are looking at when you view a SC...
