Structural Components

Synopsis: Components of structures fail in various ways - under tension, by compression, under shear or by buckling. Simple models and animation are used to illustrate these failure modes. Three balsa wood structures are loaded to show the effect of buckling of a compression component. A solid beam, a hollow tube and a space-frame cantilever are shown to have vastly different loading characteristics. Shows a new design of pylon analysed by the CEGB designer and its full scale loading to destruction.
Series: Engineering Mechanics: Solids, Course T235
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1990
Availability: Off-air recording licence
Sale; 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Formerly T232/05.
Subjects: Engineering
Keywords: loading; mechanical engineering; structural components

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