Recent content by wicz

Thanks for your help, all sorted now :)

At the risk of being caught talking to myself... I think I may have figured this out, I've attached a print screen of an excel spreadsheet I used to do the calculations. Obviously because its excel you can't see my workings, but maybe you can tell if my values look correct?

Have just realized it is not clear on my diagram that the dimensions of the cross section are in mm.

Hi there, I currently trying to calculate the second moment of area of an L shaped cross section. The reason for this is I have carried out a buckling experiment on a strut of this cross section and want to calculate some theoretical results to compare to my experimental results. I need the...

Thanks! I will give that thread a read

Hi There, This is my first post but hopefully you can help me, Im a 2nd Year Motorsport Engineering student, I've been set the task of doing a short presentation on how you calculate the forces acting on a car chassis, with some example calculations. My classmate and myself have backed...