I was wondering if anyone has any experience building their own shaker tester. Commercial units are way out of our price range, and we would like to step up from our antiquated mechanical shaker. I have been investigating both electrodynamic and servo-hydraulic shakers. Servo-hydraulic seems to...
I have been doing FEA for several years now, but have yet to determine an accurate way to calculate the actual material properties on formed bends. Does anyone have any methods of calculating the change the yield strength of steel goes through after a bending or stamping process?
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Hi,
This is probably a very basic question, but it's been a long time since I took statics.
I have a body with 1 known force and three unknown, all acting in the Y direction. Can I figure this out by summing the Y forces and the moments at 2 different points, or is this ambigious? Based on...
