To: heedm
“Thus, the force that sends the blade flying off doesn't exist. There is a force that keeps the blade on and it's absence causes the blade to fly off”.
Your argument that was made leading up to the above statement is valid on the surface.
My question is, when the designers of a rotorhead do a stress analysis on the basic design to verify structural integrity how do they perform those calculations if there is no such thing as centrifugal force?
How do they calculate centripetal force if they do not know what the applied loads are?
Regarding my comments about selling your engineering texts I meant that the books are of little use if you are working within a structured engineering environment where the company has a design manual that covers any and every type of engineering problem. . I did not imply that you should forget what you learned in college.