I appreciate all the input. I ended up solving for the area moment of inertia rather than using deflection, though it is still a tedious derivation. Then my friend discovered that Pro/E will give you the Area and Mass moments of inertia!
Other than that, it seems that creating a VBA program...
I need a little help finding and or deriving some forumlas for a project we have been assigned.
We are to analyze and redesign a typical traffic light. I have all the dimensions and loads that I need, but I need but am having a heck of a time deriving the formulas for deflection of a tapered...
