MikeC7920
Structural
- Feb 17, 2012
- 1
Hello,
im a relatively new engineer and i was asked by a co-worked if i knew how to design tapered beams (beams with varing inertias)
i have never done any deisgn of tapered beams and have no idea how to go about it
my main questions are what values do i use for calculations, average I or local I (would it be necessary to integrate :S) and for the calculation of compression resistance do i use local values or can average values suffice - this also makes me wonder does the neutral axis move downward with the beams taper along its length under a uniformed distributed load (if so is this just the slef weight that causes this)
Does anyone have solid(error free) examples of this that i can reference?
this would be much appreciated
thank you in advance,
Mike
im a relatively new engineer and i was asked by a co-worked if i knew how to design tapered beams (beams with varing inertias)
i have never done any deisgn of tapered beams and have no idea how to go about it
my main questions are what values do i use for calculations, average I or local I (would it be necessary to integrate :S) and for the calculation of compression resistance do i use local values or can average values suffice - this also makes me wonder does the neutral axis move downward with the beams taper along its length under a uniformed distributed load (if so is this just the slef weight that causes this)
Does anyone have solid(error free) examples of this that i can reference?
this would be much appreciated
thank you in advance,
Mike