The opinion that seemed to be shared by others was, "someone is requesting help, I will help them!" and that has been greatly appreciated.
The opinion you hold, which does not seem to be shared by others is, "I am perfect and the fact that someone is requesting help on a website called...
I am a professional asking professional questions. I work as a mechanical engineer in a place where no one else has the solution to that. I googled beam deflections, many times in many different variants. I have read through the literature we have available to us which was not helpful...
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For your information I did only take one statics class, I am degreed as an industrial/manufacturing engineer, not mechanical, so the fact that I even took one is more than many of my peers took. Since I graduated almost a decade ago those books are no longer accessible to me, and I have...
Tmoose, One end (Fb) is a force (belt drive), the other (Fa) is a weight/mass (fan wheel).
I have been using https://mechanicalc.com/calculators/beam-analysis/ to check against my results, but it doesn't show the calculations that go on behind the scenes. Also since you cant change material...
Thank you for the reply! I hadn't found these equations in any of my searches.
I am working through the equations. On scheme 10, if i'm reading it right, Max deflection (f) along segment AB (GF in my drawing)is equal to K*(Q*l^3)/J? If I plug in some numbers (Q=3.653, J=11.8, c=8, l=20...
I have forgotten my statics class.
Ultimately I am trying to determine Critical Speed of a shaft supported by two bearings with loads on each end. I am struggling with correctly calculating the total deflection in the beam. We have several calculators and they all give different results...
