Questions tagged [strength]
This is to be used for topics regarding the strength of materials, the analysis of internal forces in a body and all the governing principles which considers deformation of bodies.
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Steel tubing size question for building a giant swing
a customer has asked me to build a giant swing that will be suspended between two trees in a forest near their home. The swing will need to be 12 feet wide and could end up supporting eight or nine ...
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What is the Hoop stress and bending moment relation
So I am working on a club telescope project. I have to design the tube for the telescope.
So I found hoop stress to be most critical stress.
The tube's bottommost end has a mirror and a mirror cell. I ...
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How to calculate the material and thickness I need for a certain force on it?
I am trying to figure out how to design how thick a material has to be so that the bar shown in picture 1 stays intact when a user is running on it.
Background: The project is a treadmill and the user ...
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Techniques to make residential buildings more blast resistant
There are generally two approaches:
First: use stronger materials (e.g. thicker RCC with fibres, go underground, etc).
Second: for any given material, use a superior design.
The First approach is ...
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Conflicting steel strength Vs temperature graphs, NIST NCSTAR vs Engineering Toolbox
This graph is from NIST NCSTAR 1-6C
And this graph is from the Engineering Toolbox.
As you can see, neither the NIST yield or tensile curves match with the ET structural steel curve. Why? And which ...
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What is the shear force at point B? Is it +P or -P or zero? I am not able to find any source that gives the right information
I am not able to understand here that what should be the value of Shear force at point B. It seems to be a discontinous point, as there is point load there, but can we say about the exact value of ...
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How much weight can aluminum square tube support?
I'm building a bed platform in a campervan and trying to determine what type of aluminum tube to buy.
I'm thinking to purchase 6061-T6511 aluminum Square Tube with 1.5" width, 1.5" height ...
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Twisting of thick ring due to internal pressure
I have an axisymmetrical part that is subject to an internal (non-constant along the inner border, but constant in time) pressure (among other loads, but this is the one I am interested about) and I ...
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Fabricating a Strong Hub Shell for a Bicycle
I'd asked this question over at SE Bicycles but they think this is more an engineering question.
The flange on my hub broke and I'm having to get one fabricated. The part is actually a cage that ...
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Fabricating a Strong Hub Shell for a Bicycle
I'd asked this question over at SE Bicycles but they think this is more an engineering question.
The flange on my hub broke and I'm having to get one fabricated. The part is actually a cage that ...
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Determine moment and shear stress door
Determine shear stress and moment of bolt:
Internal Height of Door = 198.2 cm
Internal Width of Door = 89.9 cm
Thickness Door = 3.9 cm
Weight Door = 45.76 kg or448.9 N
Elasticity = 9.8 GPa or N/mm2
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Is it possible to model the connection of pre-cast and site cast concrete beam on FEA software such as Ansys?
I'm looking for a way to compare the joint strength of beam-to-column connections of pre-cast and site cast concrete. Is it possible to do this on a FEA software?
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2" o/d aluminum pipe (1/4" wall) used as 10' 'axle' to 'roll' dock out of water
I'm curious how much weight this 'axle' could support? The dock wheels on ends are capable of 700 lbs each.
The dock itself is 10’ wide. The axle will be placed under two 4’ x 2’ rigid black nylon ...
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What are the change in forces with a ribbon under tension is twisted?
Consider pallet strapping. It has width W. When the strap is flat, it has some maximum breaking strength B.
Now, let's put one twist in it over X feet. Mentally we have a VERY skinny isoceles ...
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Failing engine A-Mount (bad design by the automotive manufacturer?)
I currently own a Tata Nexon Petrol car (in India) where I have seen (on facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp owner groups and youtube) that the A-Mount on the engine has suffered multiple failures for some ...
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