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The local utility's engineering standard for power transformers states that the vertical component of a seismic acceleration be combined with one horizontal component (pretty obvious) Is this vertical component either upwards OR downwards? Is the resultant always further combined with the...
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I tried a demo of Cosmos DesignStar (FEA) Wow, it's expensive! $10,000!
Which FEA software do you guys know/use/recommend?
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Machinery's Handbook, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, etc. All these books help to find strengths, moments and frequencies of simple-ish beams. But what about support structures with braces and cross-bars? What's the procedure for determining the Natural Frequency of an assembly that's...