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General / Centrifugal force calculations - JOY!
« on: December 03, 2009, 07:19:17 PM »
Hey there everyone. Haven't posted in a long long time but i'm after a favour from you more clued up people out there.
I'm doing a project for my college engineering course and I want to make a modification to a Henry's Circus Diabolo to allow for single sided use. Now I know there are alot of manufactured versions around now but the whole idea is to go through the design process and possibly manufacture a prototype myself. I've done some research and initial designs but am completely clueless when it comes to calculating the masses involved and the centrifugal forces needed to be achieved to balance with the standard cup.
3D design is my forte but the software in my workplace just doesn't cut it for simulations due to a lacking material library
So I am reaching out to fellow people in the diabolo community that might have tried this or know what they are talking about. All advice I have recieved so far has been trial and error based but with the timescale I have (Easter 2010) I cannot afford to waste time on producing a number of prototype models. Not too sure my employer would appreciate a pile of scrapped designs in a box 
Any help or even suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan
I'm doing a project for my college engineering course and I want to make a modification to a Henry's Circus Diabolo to allow for single sided use. Now I know there are alot of manufactured versions around now but the whole idea is to go through the design process and possibly manufacture a prototype myself. I've done some research and initial designs but am completely clueless when it comes to calculating the masses involved and the centrifugal forces needed to be achieved to balance with the standard cup.
3D design is my forte but the software in my workplace just doesn't cut it for simulations due to a lacking material library


Any help or even suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dan