Recent content by Kristopher Horn

Ok, that's what I was thinking as well, now how would i represent that in a FBD. Would their be a distributed load on the end of the long beam because the cross piece is rectangular and wider than it is thicker, or would it be that there is just a point force on the very end of the long beam...

The force is applied directly on the end of the middle beam ( the red section ) and the defelction is highest at the red section, but what is confusing me is that, in looking the the side view at the longest beam there looks to be a force being applied that pulls the beam down, just like a...

Attached is my ANSYS model of a spring made using cantilever beams. In playing around with with different dimensions, I noticed that the longer I made the connecting section (dirty green section) the less of a total deflection there was. Could someone explain to me why this is? The overall goal...

I have a project for a class and our goal is to design a beam using 1018 steel to achieve a certain deflection under one load and not fail under an even larger load. The design I have come up with is very similar to a cantilever beam, but is has a variable cross section. I have used the...