Cantilever

[dik]

I've always understood that a cantilever is a structural element with a fixed end and a free end. Is there a requirement that it has to be horizontal? I wasn't aware that this was a condition. Does anyone have a reference to this?

Thanks...

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[jayrod12]

There's literally a lateral system called cantilever columns. So that can't be correct.

 

[dik]

Thanks jay... I've never considered them to have an orientation.

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[cliff234]

In my opinion a cantilever can be spanning in any direction. Shear walls are essentially vertical cantilevers. Flag poles are also vertical cantilevers.

 

[PEinc]

Cantilevers can be built in any direction. Horizontal, such as a diving board or a balcony on a high rise building. Vertical, such as a flag pole or an unbraced soldier beam for an excavation support system. Angled from vertical, such a a battered, cantilevered soldier beam.

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[rb1957]

who's telling you this "nonsense" ?

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[dik]

...another website, where a posted has quoted Wiki as a reference.

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[JStephen]

The AISC code refers to "cantilevered beam-columns", etc, from a text search for "cantilever". I don't see where the term by itself is specifically defined or used to mean a vertical member.

 

[dik]

Thanks, gentlemen (binary term)...

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[HTURKAK]

Definition of cantilever , from FREE DICTIONARY ;

Cantilever , perhaps ( cant + lever)

1. (Civil Engineering)
a. a beam, girder, or structural framework that is fixed at one end and is free at the other
b. (as modifier): a cantilever wing.
2. (Aeronautics) a wing or tailplane of an aircraft that has no external bracing or support
3. (Civil Engineering) a part of a beam or a structure projecting outwards beyond its support
4. (Building) a part of a beam or a structure projecting outwards beyond its support
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5. (Civil Engineering) (tr) to construct (a building member, beam, etc) so that it is fixed at one end only
6. (Civil Engineering) (intr) to project like a cantilever

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[Greenalleycat]

In my head this is one of those ones with subtle differences between day-to-day nomenclature and technical accuracy
To me, if someone just said "cantilever" I would think of something horizontal projecting beyond a support line (either a fixed end or a continuous beam spanning over the support)
I think this is what the average person would envision too

However, something can also cantilever vertically under your definition - I regularly use this in engineering contexts (cantilever poles etc)
To me, this is more in the engineering lexicon than the average person's but is a completely correct use of the word