Questions tagged [stiffness]
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Finite Element Method for Spherical Objects
I am familiar with the procedure of the FEM for simple planar objects like truss and etc. but my question would be whether it would be possible to use this method to calculate the stiffness or ...
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How to relate stiffness, weight, moment of inertia to obtain a stiffer system?
The technical field of the question is gantries in CoreXY 3D printers, where a gantry moves in Y direction and it holds a carriage sliding in X direction. In the following image, X is horizontal and Y ...
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How to calculate stiffness to weight ratio of one big tube vs two small tubes (see drawing)?
How does one calculate the stiffness1 of (a) one big diameter tube and (b) two small diameter tubes that are a certain distance apart?
I have made a drawing that illustrates and specifies the question:...
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How do I calculate the strength to weight ratio of a material
I want to manufacture something using metal 3d printing. And I'm now choosing the material. Stainless steel is stronger but much heavier than aluminum, so I want to calculate which material can ...
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How does bearing reliability factor effect the static safety values of a bearing?
I have a SKF 30202 style bearing and i found that the static safety factor of this bearing is 2.76 for a reliability of 90% how does the static safety factor change if my reliabilty was 99%? How can i ...
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Transforming the Area of a Hollow Square Section filled with concrete into the equivalent area of just steel
I need to complete the 3D stiffness matrix of steel concrete composite columns under all kinds of stresses (axial and rotational as shown in the image below). So because the section is a Square Hollow ...
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Sign Convention for Energy Methods in Vibration Analysis
Find the equivalent spring stiffness of the system below.
I was able to solve it using Newton's second law and got the result below.
$$ k_{eq} = \frac{mgl}{2} - \frac{k_1 l^2}{16} - k_2 l^2$$
However,...
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What is the difference between Hooke's Law and Young's Modulus?
In the elastic region where stress is proportional to strain up to elastic limit which is we call Young's Modulus (E). My question is if that is E, then what is Hooke's Law (K=F/x spring stiffness). I ...
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Should the stiffness of this cantilever beam be different for these two conditions?
So, I was just doing some Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to figure out what would be the effect on the stiffness of a cantilever beam if another beam is attached to it on its free end.
Below shows the ...
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How can I find stiffness of a steel coil spring used in dump trucks?
How can I find stiffness of a steel coil spring used in dump trucks?
Here is the data of the question.
Length of spring unloaded = 220mm
Outer Diameter = 27mm
Inner Diameter = 15mm
Wire Diameter = 6mm
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Difference between Stiffness (K) and Modulus of Elasticity (E)?
Stiffness (F=Kx) is the extent to which an object resists deformation in response to an applied force. Elastic Modulus (E=Stress/Strain) is a quantity that measures an object or substance's resistance ...
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Why does a jumping rope have no bending stiffness and compression stiffness?
Can anyone just tell me that why doesn't a jumping rope, or any other kind of rope, have any bending stiffness? If I hold one end of the rope in my hand, the rest of the rope will just fall. It won't ...
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Should a stiffener be hatched
In my course it's preferred not to hatch ribs and webs so should I consider a stiffener like them and not hatch it or is it different and why ?
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Brittle = highly stiff but not very strong
I was trying to imagine materials undergoing collisions, and thought about materials that do not deform at all. Naturally this is an idealization that does not exist in reality but, if it did, I ...
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Will the second beam have higher or lower stiffness in X direction than the first beam?
Attached is a picture of two beams. The second beam has exactly the same properties and dimensions as the first one, but is rotated, say, by 45 degrees. I want to know if the second beam will have ...
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Ways to stiffen a HSS profile?
I have an issue with a post that’s deflecting a little bit too much. Picture a 10 foot HSS c-channel section, used vertically as a post. Web/flange 4.5 x 1.75 @ 3/16 thick.
Clients (friends) insisted ...
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Stiffness of spring pendulum from position, velocity, and acceleration
I'm working on a problem for which I have an external tool that integrates the equations of motion of a complex 'pendulum-like' mechanism (multiple beams, torsion springs and dampers, actuation, etc., ...
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On rectangular section beam properties of plate stiffeners
I am trying to understand the expression of the vertical dynamic stiffness $K_T$ and the rotational dynamic stiffness $K_r$ which appears in this paper where they consider a semi-infinite plate ...
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How quadrilateral elements represented in most FEA solvers for structural mechanics problems?
How quadrilateral elements represented in most FEA solvers for structural mechanics problems?
I know that Nastran-95 represent quadrilaterals for membrane and bending elements as a set of triangles:
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How do the constraints imposed on a material increase the stiffness?
As the title of this post says, how do the contraints increase the stiffness. For example, I was doing an exercise where I had to calculate the deflection on a rubber block with and without deflection ...
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Axially loaded member with a spring / Mechanic of Materials
i've been struggling with this problem i made up. It is about a cylindrical copper member (diameter $d=20$ mm and length $L=250$ mm) with a spring (stiffness $k=166,5$ kN/mm) fixed on a wall, as the ...
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How to measure the stiffness of a rectangular beam, and compare it to a triangular beam?
I'm an amateur at engineering, working more on musical instruments, and I'm often in confusion regarding what exactly constitutes stiffness of a beam for a load applied on it so it could resist ...
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Bending stiffness of composite shaft
What is the method to compute the effective bending stiffness "EI" of a composite structure, in this case a shaft (as seen below).
The shaft is hollow with outer radius $r_{o}$, inner radius ...
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Database for stiffness matrix? [closed]
I have searched everywhere for the stiffness matrix of GFRP, but there isn't a single paper or site that experimented the full matrix. Is there any sort of database for the stiffness matrix of many ...
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How do FE solvers solve the case of panel buckling under pure shear?
How do FE solvers solve the case of panel buckling under pure shear?
The main problem is that global matrix of initial stess is singular in that case. One method is to apply some forces that shear is ...
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Solving for stiffness matrix numerically by a set of measurements
Is it in general possible when you have a mechanical structure (in this case I am referring to the structure in this post) and you want to determine the global stiffness matrix of this structure, to ...
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FEM - is symmetry a boundary condition?
In FEM is symmetry technically a boundary condition?
For example using the FEM on a symmetrically loaded and supported beam. The FEM can be simplified by using symmetry.
However, is this symmetry ...
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Degrees of freedom of an internal hinge in plane beam?
What are the degrees of freedom of an internal hinge in a plane beam?
I understand that the bending moment=0, does this mean there is no slope either?
Or does it have both degrees of freedom of ...
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Looking for thin flexible and strong material
I have a project in which I have to use a up to 2.5mm diameter needle with a 90 degree (L shape) angle similar than the one in the following picture:
I say similar because there is only the tip of ...
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Stiffness of a cantilever beam
I am working on calculating the stiffness of a cantilever beam by applying a distributed load. I wanted to ask if the distribution of the load on the beam effects its stiffness.
For eg., if I apply a ...
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How does stiffness/rigidity affect the bending moment of a beam
My question may sound silly as it’s mainly good sense but I may be mixing things up.
Let’s consider a flexible cantilever beam of a given length and material is fixed at one end and free at the other ...
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Stiffness of highly compressible materials
A foam which I have performed compression tests on shows results similar to the following hysteresis cycle:
(Note that the first bend in the graph is not the yield point; the hysteresis cycle returns ...
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Determining when bolt will bend
I'm attaching a metal pipe to a metal tube as shown in the below diagram. The bolt is threaded through one wall of the pipe and does not pass through the opposite wall of the pipe, but is tightened to ...
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Increasing the stiffnes of a structure by adding stiffener, but at the same time reducing main surface thickness
Let's say I'm designing a table surface which has to be stiff, rigid, but at the same time, not too heavy. It is rectangular in shape and ratio of length:width is quite large. It is only supported on ...
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How to implement a Monte Carlo Simulation for studying uncertainty in dynamic stiffness?
I have a dynamic mechanical system of the form:
$$\mathbf{M{\ddot q}+{\Omega_c}G{\dot q}+{Kq}=F(t)}$$
and I need to introduce some uncertainty for the $K$ parameter, which is a symetric matrix of $q$ ...
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Beam stiffness matrix with sliding end release in arbitrary angle
I know how to get the stiffness matrix of a beam with any type of end releases (hinges and rollers) by applying Guyan reduction (static condensation) to the beam stiffness matrix in local axes. ...
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What is the deflection of planet-ring Gear Mesh along the pressure line and the position of the Plant gear?
For a Sun-Planet mesh in a planetary gear train, there will be a deflection $\delta_{sn}=\delta_{s}-\delta_{n}$ along the pressure line and the position of the planet will be determined by $\psi_{n}$, ...
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Asymettric stiffness matrix for a generator-gearbox-turbine system
I need to model the system in figure, where turbine, shaft1 and gear1 are a unique rigid body, while shaft2 can be modeled like a torsional spring. Using as coordinates Theta1, clockwise angular ...
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How much does the elasticity (Young's Modulus) of concrete and asphalt change with ambient temperature?
I'm assuming here that all materials will have a change in elasticity due to thermal expansion/contraction and a resultant reduction/increase in the strength of the bonds of the atoms leading to a ...
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Why does a simple pin-ended triangular (arched/curved) beam deflect more due to secondary effects (non-linear analysis)?
I cannot wrap my head around this.
I have made two simple models, a triangular (or curved or arched) beam that is pin ended and has a single point load of 1N downwards at it's center, and a flat beam ...
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Definition of stiffness for structural dynamics: How would you find the stiffness of an unusual beam directly?
I have a structure which is essentially a curved beam (not an arch or anything simple) which I have modeled in microstran/spacegass. It looks something like this:
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Convert translational stiffness to rotational stiffness of a screw
I have the formula for the translational stiffness which is :
However, what I would like to find is the rotational stiffness. Is there any formulas to convert from one to an other knowing the pitch ...
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Stiffness of members in a bolted joint
I'm trying to calculate the safety factor against separation of members in a design that looks like this:
I know how to find the bolt and cylinder stiffness, but I don't know how to find the ...
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Elasticity of a drilled plate
If I take a large thin plate and I uniformly drill a very large number of holes (diameter "d") very close together (minimum spacing "s"), what will be the stiffness of this new plate? When I say "...
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Dominant parameters in the dynamical response of a linear oscillator
I am working with a very simple 3-DOF damped LTI spring-mass system. As an exercise I am altering two parameters simultaneously (stiffness and damping coefficients connecting mass 1 to mass 2) to see ...
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What are the elastic constants for tetragonal zirconia polycrystal (TZP)?
I have six known elastic constants of TZP. What is the relationship between the known and the unknown constants?
Known constants (GPa):
$c_{11}=327\\ c_{12}=100\\ c_{13}=62\\ c_{33}=264\\ c_{44}=...
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How does width and thickness affect the stiffness of steel plate?
I have a 2 mm thick steel plate which is 300 mm long and 30 mm wide, supported at either end. It supports a weight-bearing wheel that can roll along the plate. It currently supports the maximum weight ...
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