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Re: pic: Beam Bending Example

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
All I'm getting from this exercise is disoriented.

Don Rotolo's post talked about the stresses being greatest on the top and bottom, which doesn't match how I read the picture it's referring to. The recent images use the words "wide" and "tall", but the pictures associated with those words seem to be swapped. Help?
Nuts... Now that I look back I doubt that you're alone.
Thanks for saying something.

This conversation started from another thread discussing frame rails getting hit from the side which is why I modeled the beam with the load from the side and now we're mixing that convention with the typical beam loaded from top convention. I'll correct the images so that the load is on top since that seems to be the easiest to understand for anybody wandering in to this thread.

*sigh* Once again, I'm making the simple complicated.
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