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    What is the best way to position hinges on a heavy duty door design?

    How did you derive to that formulation. I referred to the guideline provided at this site http://www.allegiscorp.com/docs/hingeDesignGuide.pdf
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    What is the best way to position hinges on a heavy duty door design?

    thanx for your replies. The door will be mounted on specially made door jams and yes 7 hinges is the requirement from the customer. I referred to some notes & did the following calculations to justify my theories but am not sure if I missed anything! The radial load acting on top hinge...
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    What is the best way to position hinges on a heavy duty door design?

    I working on a project to manufacture a door of size (W)1.5m and (H)2.5m that uses 7 butt hinges attached to the frame. The weight of the door is approx 300kg. Currently I have decided to position the hinges equally to each other but my production supervisor is advising against it. He suggest...