Thus far, we have applied fundamental formulas to determine the stresses in different structural members neglecting high stress regions. In ...
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The stress analysis of a tapered or varying cross section beam is slightly different than a uniform beam when it ...
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Anyone that has done finite element analysis has been exposed to stiffness matrices. Each term in a stiffness matrix represents ...
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A beam is considered indeterminate if there a more unknowns than equilibrium equations. When this occurs, one can feel at ...
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In college we focus on finding the internal loads of static systems. We rarely are asked to find the internal ...
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