Hi all,
Recently I was given a task of reducing the spread of vibrations through a welded steel structure. I have attached an image of the structure below. Now the structure is approximately 10 meters long and 3 meters wide, it is supporting a vibrating conveyor whose vibrations are to be...
Hi all,
Recently a customer came to me with a sketch of a steel construction based around secondary bolted trusses onto a main truss (Sketch below). The main fixed demand is that the depth of the truss is 0.65 meters.
I personally found the truss depth of the primary truss (8 meters) to be too...
Hi all,
I am currently designing a truss with IPE 140 (I-beam) as chords. The beam however is rotated on its side, meaning its web is horizontal. The truss will have square hollow structural steel diagonals which are welded onto the horizontal web.
While checking those diagonals in the Eurocode...
I have been having trouble with a problem that looks really easy, I need to design a mechanism which can open the bottom doors( marked blue on the picture ) on this steel box in order to empty its contents, and of course keep it closed when the mechanism is not activated, the mechanism has to be...
