pylon vector solution.pdf
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FollowUpSolutionstoPylonProblem
Thefollowingspacediagramsandvectordiagramsoffersomealternativesolutionstothisdesignproblem.DesignA
Becausetheframeworkandtheloadingarebothsymmetrical,itispossibletoassumethatthesupportreactionsare10Neach.Theanglesbetweenthemembersareeitherat90,60or30degrees,whichenablestouseofstandarddrawingboardtriangles(setsquares).
Thevectordiagramcanbedrawnasfollows.(refertostepladdersforanexplanationofBowsNotationmethodofvectoranalysis)
Drawatobbtocctod,dtoa(useasuitablescalesay5mm(or2/10thofaninch)represents1Newton)
LookingatthelefthandendofthespacediagramAandBhavebeenestablishedasaandbonthevectordiagram,HisbetweenAandBsothevectorpositionofhcanbedeterminedbytriangulation.HencedrawalinefrombparalleltoHBtointersectwithalinedrawnfromaparalleltoAH.
Thepositionofecanbedeterminedinthesamewayash(aeparalleltoAEanddeparalleltoDE)
DeterminefbydrawingfromatofparalleltoAFandintersectwithaline,fromeparalleltoEF.
Thepositionofgcanbedeterminedinthesamewayasf.
fandgarebothatthesamelocationwhichindicatesthatthememberFGistechnicallyredundant,howeverastheframeworkisassumedtobepinjointed,FGisrequiredtomaintainrigidityintheframework.
Thenatureandmagnitudeforeachmembercanbemeasuredfromthevectordiagram.
MemberNatureofreactionMagnitudeAEtension20NAFtension17.32NAHtension20NBHcompression17.32NCGcompression17.32NDEcompression17.32NEFcompression20NFGredundant0GHcompression20N
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ThevectordiagramforDesignBcanbedrawnisasimilarmanner.ThereisanobviousdifferenceinEFandGHastheyareredundantinthissolution.FGremainsredundantbutallthreeredundantmemberswillberequiredtomaintainrigidity.
DesignB
Thenatureandmagnitudeofthereactionsinmembersareshownbelow.
MemberNatureofreactionMagnitudeAEtension17.32NAFtension17.32NAHtension17.32NBHcompression20NCGcompression17.32NDEcompression20NEFredundant0FGredundant0GHredundant0
Itisalsopossibletousetrigonometrytoobtainaccuratevalues..
Inbothvectordiagramsabis5Nsoahandbhcanbedeterminedasfollows
x=10x=10Sin30Tan30=20N=17.32N
IfthearmsareextendedandtheanglesbetweenthearmsarereducedasintheDesignCtheinternalreactionsinmembersareincreased,ascanbeseeninthediagramsbelow.
ThevectordiagramfordesignCisdrawninasimilarmanner.
WhenthisdesigniscomparedwithdesignAyouwillseethatthemagnitudeoftheforcesinseveralmembersisincreasedbecauseofthechangeinanglebetweenthemembers.
DesignC
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Athreedimensionaldesignsolution
Alltheaboveanalysisassumesthatthestructureispurelytwodimensional,whichofcourseisnotthecase.
Belowisasketchofapossible3dimensionalsolutiontotheproblem.Thisrequiresadditionalmemberstobeanalysed,whicharedrawninathickerline.
Astherearenow4verticalsupportpositionsthereactionateachisnowonly5Newtons
Threeseparateviewsareshownbelowofthe3dimensionaldesign.Thealtered/additionalmembersaredrawninathickerline.
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Todeterminetheforcesinthenewhorizontalmembers,usetheprojectionviewfromP.Theoriginaltwodimensionalvectordiagramsolutiongaveacompressionforceof17.32Ninthesinglehorizontalmember.Thisforceof17.32NewtonsisnowopposedbytwonewmembersshowninthespacediagramKLJ.
Fromthespacediagram,drawthevectordiagramklj,fromwhichthevaluesofljandjkare8.94N,bothinCompression.
Thevaluesforthetwomembersontheoppositesideofthepylonwithhavethesamenatureandmagnitude.
TodeterminetheforcesinthethreenewmembersformingthetrianglesatthetopofthetowerconsidertheviewfromEEanddrawthespaceandvectordiagrams..
Remembertheanglesbetweenthetriangleframemembersare60degrees.
Thenatureandmagnitudeofthereactionsinmembersareshownbelow.
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MemberNatureofreactionMagnitudeNQcompression5.77NPQtension2.88N``MQcompression5.77N
Alloftheabovedrawingshavebeencompletedusingacomputerdrawingprogram.Theaccuracyofthevectorvalueshavebeenconfirmedbytrigonometricalcalculations.
LongSlendermembers
Longslendermembersarelikelytobuckleundercompressionbeforethemembersundertensionfail.Itisadvantageoustobracetheframewithdiagonalsatanoptimalangleof45degrees.Asshownintheillustrationsshownbelow.
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