Book of Analysis Solutions for Indeterminate Frames
Book of Analysis Solutions for Indeterminate Frames
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Does anyone know of a book or design guide that offers quick solutions; i.e. base reactions, axial loads and moments due to typical applied external loads (gravity and lateral).
I'm trying to avoid lengthy hand analysis and computer methods to quickly calculate reactions/stresses in members of typical frame assemblies.
Thanks for any help!
I'm trying to avoid lengthy hand analysis and computer methods to quickly calculate reactions/stresses in members of typical frame assemblies.
Thanks for any help!






RE: Book of Analysis Solutions for Indeterminate Frames
It's similar to Roarks. Much of the data is in matrix format (not my favorite), but the rigid frame section has formulas similar to roarks.
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RE: Book of Analysis Solutions for Indeterminate Frames
RE: Book of Analysis Solutions for Indeterminate Frames
Personally, I found that Kleinlogel took almost as much time as a normal analysis and I didn't "feel" the structure as I did when I did a custom calculation.
If there were useful and safe shortcuts, we would all be using them.
If you are looking for approximations for estimates, the Steel Designer's Manual (Crosby Lockwell) has or had some quicker methods.
Michael.
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Sorry
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Mike McCann
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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You know the answer to that..., read the fine print in textbooks, codes, and software. They take no responsibility for your design, whatever formulas they suggest you use. They did pretty good, but you assume the responsibility. But, another sad commentary on the state of affairs these days is, mostly what we have as engineers is 'plugers n chugers,' way too many of them have no intuitive understanding of how the structure or machine they are designing really works. The formulas should take care of that too.
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As far as independent checks, I've normally found that sketching the moment and shear diagrams is my best sanity check, especially for fairly straightforward structures. If you can't make them work there's something wrong. They also make sure you're actually understand what the structure is doing.
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