Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations KootK on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by Willstegs

  1. Willstegs

    Stress at radius of formed area of C-channel

    Sorry here is the file of the results without a radius http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=5de8cce4-e46d-469b-a330-acfdef7f19a0&file=NoRadiusCchannel.pdf
  2. Willstegs

    Stress at radius of formed area of C-channel

    I have a formed C-channel with a 20k lb. load. Doing hand calculations I find the max stress should be 12,000psi. I calculated with an offset load. I then plugged everything into Mechanica and ran the FEA with a C-channel without radius from forming (To reduce the time to run) and found that...

Part and Inventory Search