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Shape of a beam that is bowed under compression?
Suppose you have a uniform beam, such as a piece of plywood that is 4 feet long, six inches wide, and half an inch thick. Suppose you cause it to bend by attaching, for example, a string under ...
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how to determine the direction of support reactions in a truss?
Hi, I am not sure how to determine the direction of support reactions at point A and K. I know point A has a pin support, therefore, it can take in horizontal and vertical loads and point K has a ...
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Is there a way to solve this complex statics problem algebraically?
This problem can be solve in 2 ways either I solve it with vectors which would be relatively painful and more time consuming and the other faster way is algebraically but I faced a problem when trying ...
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Resultant of coplanar forces
I have a question that goes thus. At what angle $\theta$ must the $500N$ force be applied in order that the resultant $R = 1000N$. For this condition what will.ne the angle $\beta$ between $R$ and ...
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Determinating Reactions for the following frame
According to the frame below, the goal is to determine the reactions of this frame in order to draw after the diagrams N, T and M.
The frame is asymmetric by reference at point C.
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