I have a pretensioned bolted connection that always sees a rather high level of vibration where I want to use loctite thread locker to prevent bolt rotation, not safety wire. Does anyone have a clever & durable way of marking the bolts for inspection to determine whether or not there has been...
I am designing a cantilever beam, it is a steel plate something around 1" wide and 6" deep. It supports a load on top about 30" from the fixed side and has no lateral bracing at the tip.
My intuition makes me want to use Lb = 2*L for the LTB equation. Over-conservative? I was unable to find...
Just want to know if anyone else has experience with or insight into this:
My fiance recieved her bachelors deg from a good public school in Biomedical Engineering. Problem was she had a hell of a time getting a job and most doors slammed in her face because they wanted mechanical or...
We are analyzing a 100’ long truss that is part of a moment frame, and as such there is an inflection point towards the end of the truss under heavy snow loads. The end fixity causes a fairly large compression force to be generated in the bottom chord over the last two panel points, and then it...
