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Means for rapidly and conveniently treating uniformly tapering levers in terms of deflection, gradient, and lengthway variation of bending stress are given. The optimum taper for material economy in terms of bending stress is derived. Whilst there is no equivalent for deflection, an optimum taper that minimizes deflection for a given quantity of material has been deduced.

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tapering levers deflection gradient bending stress optimum taper

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The Design of Tapered Levers

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