Category: Stress Flow / Hand Calcs

Almost all objects are loaded in bending. Knowing how to spot and then calculate the bending moment is critical. Identifying the bending stress brings lots of elements together. We need to know...

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We’ve talked a little about stress concentrations, but now let’s dig into how they are calculated. Using commonly available tables, we can determine what the factor is and how to calculate the...

https://youtu.be/huG80V4dpWs Stresses in pin holes have a unique stress distribution. Here we will learn the classical approach to this and why we can make this assumption.

In college we learned all about torsion and the polar moment of inertia. However, school can be over simplified at times. A colleague and I learned this the hard way. We were designing a 20 foot...

Rarely have I blown away by something, but in this case I was. I remember it like it was yesterday when we talked about Shear-Moment diagrams in our Strength of Materials Class. Wow, what a cool...