On 4/18/2013 1:03 PM, Edward A. Falk wrote:
In article ,
Greg Guarino wrote:

My sense of the physics involved tells me that that method will not
produce an arc of a circle.

I agree, and my own experiments have borne this out.

The bending stress will be highest at the center, and tend
toward zero at the ends. I think you'll get a hyperbola.

That's OK. There's a simple outpatient procedure for hyperbola these days.