Recent content by henie84

ok, i might have misunderstood what you meant by a curved beam, i was assuming a line element with small deflection angles :-) Cool, I got to look up MEXE and ARCHIE then, especially MEXE sounds interesting to me. Thanks for the info.

not sure what ARCHIE or MEXE is ... but the point is not to use FE analysis ... i can be doing 2D/3D FE models all day, not a problem, but I really need an approximate solution, because the FE packages are not available at locations where we are trying to implement this ... worst case...

Hey there, i´m dealing with a problem when I´m trying to analyze an arch bridge for approximate stresses in the arch. The normal force is quite easy to get for such structure. The problem I´m running into is the fix-end moment for the arch under both dead load and live load (live load is...