I'm mainly designing the boom under the kicker loads. The force on the main sheet is very light and mostly booms flex over horizontal axis due to the vang loads. Fitted with 32:1 ratio and assuming 30 kg pull force for human on a 5mm rope and 30deg angle I get a design vertical force of 4700 N...
I'm trying to engineer a composite carbon boom for a dinghy. This basically behaves like a simply supported beam with a no-centered vertical point load.
I'm setting up a spreadsheet using maximum strains to check the laminate. I've UD plies running on top and bottom of a rectangular profile and...
