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Do tensile and compressive stresses create moments?
Below are 3 examples I designed. My question is about the tensile and compressive stresses that occur in 3 examples under the influence of a horizontal force F=100N (earthquake force). I ask my ...
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How do you simplify this load diagram?
Very rough sketch but I'm having trouble with a Shear and Bending Moment problem, and I'm pretty new to the topic.
This is the original diagram:
I already simplified the left side (not sure if it's ...
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How to find the reaction at the pinned support A as shown in the picture? [closed]
Please help me solve the problem. I need to know the reactions at A for both the cases as shown. Please note that E is a roller, D is a pin support , B is an internal hinge and A for case 2 is a fixed ...
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A way to calculate the magnitude of the moment
In my engineering textbook, I didnt understand the example given to explain the magnitude of the moment. It asks to calculate the magnitude of the moment about the base point O of the 600-N force in ...
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Structural mechanics - computing bending moment
I am having difficulties trying to work out one problem. I've attached a picture explaining the situation - the task is to determine internal forces in C but the bending moment M(x) doesn't seem to ...
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Different measured strain in beam experiencing pure bending
I have a beam experiencing a pure bending moment. The setup is similar to this image from these lecture notes (with different values).
Using the flexure formula, we can determine that the stress (and ...
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