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How can I calculate the maximum center load on a horizontal cellular glass tile; supported along its edges, before it breaks?
Insulating cellular glass boards or tiles are designed to sit on a flat load-bearing surface. I want to consider the situation where the base is concave so the tile is only supported on its edges. I ...
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"Heavy-duty" or not, can my drawer slides really support this weight?
Okay, so recently I got a Dewalt 735 Thickness Planer.
It's great at what it does. (It even LOOKS like it's ready to consume the tender flesh of lumber, like some twisted Victorian lumberjack... ...
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Longitudinal impact of steel rod on a steel plate to verify the contact duration
So I'm doing an experiment to verify the contact duration when a steel rod (Material: Mild Steel) is allowed to free fall longitudinally on a steel plate. The arrangement is real simple:
The rod is ...
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Composite beam calculation
I'm building a shelf out of an Oriented Strand Board (OSB-3), reinforced with steel strip attached to it's bottom side. Please check my calculations for deflection.
The OSB thickness is $h_{OSB}=18 \...
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How do you select the correct area to consiser for first moment of area calculations?
I have just begun studying mechanics of materials and I am struggling to understand intuitively how to select the area in first moment of area calculations. I was hoping someone has a relatively easy ...
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Plotting deflection of a beam
I have a formula to compute the deflection of a beam.
When I have computed the deflection I get a vector with non-negative elements representing the deflection in each position on the beam.
When I ...
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