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Category: Stress Flow / Hand Calcs

Video – Easily Develop Shear and Moment Diagrams for Beam Analysis

Shear-Moment Diagrams are an easy way to determine the internal working of any beam. Multiple beam loadings can be calculated through the law of superposition.See this article for more information:...

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link to Video – Beam Fundamentals: Understanding Loadings and Reactions

Video – Beam Fundamentals: Understanding Loadings and Reactions

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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link to Video – Identifying Shear Stress in Structures

Video – Identifying Shear Stress in Structures

https://youtu.be/p_5WWj7pJnU Featured Image Sourced from: aokomoriuta(青子守歌), CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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link to Video – How to Use Tables to Calculate Stress Concentrations

Video – How to Use Tables to Calculate Stress Concentrations

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...

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link to Video – Calculating the Stress on a Pin Hole?

Video – Calculating the Stress on a Pin Hole?

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.

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Never Use Polar Moment of Inertia on These Sections

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...

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