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Tipping Point for Free Standing Wall
I work at a museum and we use weighted free standing walls to hang artwork in the center of rooms.
Could someone recommend how much weight to use inside our walls to ensure stability with the ...
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Find out the loads acting per unit length on the beams supporting an open well stair
Please see the attached picture.
I want to find out the dead load per unit length and live load per unit length (both in kN/m), that will be acting on the floor beam (300 mm × 450 mm) and the landing ...
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Names for 3d tensile structure
A naive natural language description might be 'pole supported by tent-like 3d wire net' for the depicted playground climbing arrangement made of rope with a pole in the center.
Is there a more precise ...
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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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Is there any standard procedure or guideline to solve complex asymmetrical trusses such as saw tooth type of truss used for polyhouse construction?
I want to solve for the dead load,live load as well as wind load for a saw tooth type of truss, which is asymmetrical in nature....generally used for the construction of greenhouse. I also want to ...
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Analyzing shear stress of plate
I would like to conduct a nonlinear analysis to obtain the stress-strain curve of a plate subjected to shear force, as depicted in the figure below. However, I am encountering difficulties in setting ...
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I have a question about INISTATE Code (Analyzing a curved plate)
I'm studying welding-induced residual stresses for curved steel plates.
So, I need to use the INISTATE code taking initial stresses.
This is the picture that I want to analyze.
I divided a curved ...
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Determining the suitability of a timber joint in a given situation
There seems to be a lot of information around calculating the forces exerted on a structure. When joining wood, once the structural analysis is done, how is the performance limit of a certain type of ...
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$𝛕_{xz}$ in the flanges of T and I Sections
When we have a T or I section under a shear force $V_y$ I usually must account for a horizontal shear force across the section's Z axis ($𝛕_{xz}$). I understand why a transverse shearing force would ...
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Find the internal bending moment, Mc
A 7meter,m, long cantilever beam whose weight per meter is 19Newton, N, carries a load that varies uniformly from 43N/m, (Newton/meter), at the inbuilt side, point A, to 0 at the free end, point B. ...
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Counterweight requirement and platform design for motorised speaker stand stability
I recently bought my dream speakers (Dutch & Dutch 8c), but at the cost of having to preserve a minimalist interior for the sake of household peace. To that effect, I plan to construct motorised ...
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Some questions about linear rail systems
there are many linear rail system configurations. Some with only one lead/ball screw in the middle and a moving platform with wheels aligning outside/inside/on top of one/two framing rail(s). Others ...
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Need to find beam deflection of a steel tube
So I have a square tube of 40mm, 3mm wall thickness with a length of 1 meter. Both ends are fixed 25mm inwards. Load is 3kg centerpoint. Steel is SJ235.
I need to know the deflection of this beam.
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what are the compression forces in a strut if the strut is fixed
i am trying to match an experiment i have done and i dont know how to compute the force in the strut in terms of F given these boundary conditions. i have attempted to use fixed end moment equations ...
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Finding zero-force members of truss system
My instructor gave the below example for identifying zero force members in truss. The members marked with the green zeros are the zero-force members, according to his solutions.
I cannot understand ...
