Questions about the equipment and machinery used for shredding materials and objects. Also about the shear forces that result in shredding either by deliberate mechanical means or by natural means in order to engineer against them.
Questions tagged [shredding]
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Why don't massive industrial shredders shred themselves?
With the huge metal shredders that can shred an entire car or a bus, they can shred parts like the axle and engine which are large solid chunks of metal, just like the massive spinning shredder blades.
So why does the car get shredded and not the…
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Do smaller cutters of shredders exert more force than large cutters?
I am designing a shredder and would like to know the right size (diameter) of a cutter .
I believe this is how a shredder works from my online research.
Torque = Force x Distance (radius of cutter)
2000 = F x 0.2 m
F = 2000/0.2 = 10000 N
If I…
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