Recent content by SJB

Hi All, Thanks for the continued input. Yes, and it gets even more complicated as in actuality the pole is a telescopic tube so reducing diameters as it goes up. From a stress point of view the pole could actually be self standing as the horizontal tip load is so small. The problem is that...

Hello Studiot, nvn, CS, Thank you for taking the time to read this and your comments are much appreciated! It's interesting that there is at least a possibility that the tube can initially buckle but then reach an equilibrium. I'm intrigued by this and in the long-term I'll try and find a...

Hi, Thank you for taking the time to look at my problem. I am considering a vertical pole fixed in the ground at the bottom and experiencing a horizontal point load at the top. This pole is fixed with guy ropes from the top to the ground at a certain angle. See attached image. Assuming...

Hello Gerenuk, Brilliant... Thank you very much indeed, I'd spent all day banging my head on the desk over this. I kept trying to expand everything out and group back together again which was pretty stupid I guess... Thank you again for your help Simon

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to look at my problem. I'm following a worked example in a textbook and I have come to a line of simplification which I just can't see how/what they've done? I've attached a .jpg showing the two lines of simplification. Making this simplification helps...

Hello Piygar, Thank you for your reply, I'll give this a go and if successful will post back the equation in case it is useful to others. Thanks Simon

Hi and thank you for taking a look at my problem.. I'm very familiar with doing deflection calculations for beams of constant cross-section but I find myself needing to now do calculations on a beam of varying cross-section and I'm completely lost. It's a relatively simple case in that the...