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Thermal expansion/contraction display chart for shop?

Piper3T

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May 9, 2016
Was wondering if anyone can link me a nice-looking graphical chart that gives some basic rules of thumb about material and thermal expansion/contraction. Something like a feeds and speeds chart or decimal conversion chart.

I'm often asked to inspect parts that are ~30 degrees F different in temperature than our inspection environment. Some hadny rule-of-thumb chart I can point to may at least get my point across to these people that we should wait for the parts to normalize to room temperature.

I did a google search but didn't find anything I liked. Was thinking it would be something like Temperature difference on the X axis, thermal movement on the & axis, and comparing common materials like steel, aluminum, stainless, etc.

Thank you!
 
This is better served with a spreadsheet that has a list of materials, their CTE, then fields for lenght, width, height, and temp delta from 20C/68F. Input the variables, get nominal corrected numbers out.
 








 
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