Originally Posted by
Bad Lag
This is what I was thinking, too. That's why I asked about the nature of the testing and test data.
Fatigue testing is not so difficult to do once you understand the real world application and construct the test to simulate that, even if it is cyclic (pun) tensile loading. Fatigue testing is done all the time.
Yes, all of that
can be done. The graphs on tensile strength are the
only testing of any kind on spokes that I’ve been able to find in decades of looking. Only Pillar has published these kinds of test so it’s the only data we have to use. It’s not perfect but when it’s all ya go, ya go with it.