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Section modulus for T beam
I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam
is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray |
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Section modulus for T beam
wrote in message s.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray Break the cross section into two rectangles. Find the area of each and y, the distance their centroids are from the bottom. Multiply the area of each by the y of each. Add those up, then divide by the sum of the areas. That gives the centroid of the cross section. Next, calculate the moments of inertia of each section, then use the parallel axis transfer theorem to calculate their I at the centric of the cross section and add them up. Now you can calculate the section modulus. As I recall, that's how we did it in the old days, someone else will tell you the answer from some computer program shortly! |
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Section modulus for T beam
"Rick" wrote in message ... wrote in message s.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray Break the cross section into two rectangles. Find the area of each and y, the distance their centroids are from the bottom. Multiply the area of each by the y of each. Add those up, then divide by the sum of the areas. That gives the centroid of the cross section. Next, calculate the moments of inertia of each section, then use the parallel axis transfer theorem to calculate their I at the centroid of the cross section and add them up. Now you can calculate the section modulus. As I recall, that's how we did it in the old days, someone else will tell you the answer from some computer program shortly! Must have been one hell of a dumpster you found THAT in! |
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Section modulus for T beam
http://www.efunda.com/math/areas/IndexArea.cfm
Suggest that you do the manual calculation also to verify that they agree. David Merrill wrote in message s.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray |
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Section modulus for T beam
On Oct 2, 10:16 am, "Rick" wrote:
wrote in message s.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray Break the cross section into two rectangles. Find the area of each and y, the distance their centroids are from the bottom. Multiply the area of each by the y of each. Add those up, then divide by the sum of the areas. That gives the centroid of the cross section. Next, calculate the moments of inertia of each section, then use the parallel axis transfer theorem to calculate their I at the centric of the cross section and add them up. Now you can calculate the section modulus. As I recall, that's how we did it in the old days, someone else will tell you the answer from some computer program shortly! ANYBODY that knows of or has a proven subroutine to calculate the section modulus of any reasonable cross section by spreadsheet, or whatever, please let me know. I am sick and tired of doing this by hand!!! A Tee section is tedious but straight forward; try an I-beam section where each of the 4 flange legs is a different thickness! Wolfgang |
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Section modulus for T beam
I highly recommend the program engineering power tools, at
http://www.pwr-tools.com/ Freeware version is very useful, and the full version price is only $50. Has a section properties calculator where you can draw arbitrary shapes, hollow or solid, and it will calculate the moment of inertia and other properties. I checked a few geometries by hand and they were fine. Also has a properties calculator for several standard geometries, and I check them and found a bug, which the author fixed quickly. I drew this so that the base of the web was centered at (0,0), in inches, so the top of the flange starts at (-15.75,78.75) and ends at (15.75,78.75), and got these results: Area 52.875 Xcg 0.00 Ycg 56.593 Ix 204440. Iy 1953.83 Ixy 0.00 Ix0 35093.14 Iy0 1953.83 Ixy0 0.00 J 37046.98 Whe Area - Total area (adjusted for any defined voids) Xcg - Centroid of section (distance from X axis) Ycg - Centroid of section (distance from Y axis) Ix - Moment of inertia (about the X axis) Iy - Moment of inertia (about the Y axis) Ixy - Moment of inertia (about the XY axis) Ixo - Moment of inertia (about centroidal X axis, parallel with original X axis) Iyo - Moment of inertia (about centroidal Y axis, parallel with original X axis) Ixyo - Moment of inertia (about centroidal XY axis) Theta - Angle between the principal axis and the XY axis Ix' - Moment of inertia (calculated at the specified "Delta Angle from Principal Axis" ) Iy' - Moment of inertia (calculated at the specified "Delta Angle from Principal Axis") J - Polar moment of inertia about principal axis Engineering Power Tools - Copyright 2002, Barry J. Opdahl Hope this is useful. -- Regards, Carl Ijames carl dott ijames aat verizon dott net (remove nospm or make the obvious changes before replying) wrote in message oups.com... On Oct 2, 10:16 am, "Rick" wrote: wrote in message s.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray Break the cross section into two rectangles. Find the area of each and y, the distance their centroids are from the bottom. Multiply the area of each by the y of each. Add those up, then divide by the sum of the areas. That gives the centroid of the cross section. Next, calculate the moments of inertia of each section, then use the parallel axis transfer theorem to calculate their I at the centric of the cross section and add them up. Now you can calculate the section modulus. As I recall, that's how we did it in the old days, someone else will tell you the answer from some computer program shortly! ANYBODY that knows of or has a proven subroutine to calculate the section modulus of any reasonable cross section by spreadsheet, or whatever, please let me know. I am sick and tired of doing this by hand!!! A Tee section is tedious but straight forward; try an I-beam section where each of the 4 flange legs is a different thickness! Wolfgang |
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Section modulus for T beam
On Oct 2, 11:09 pm, "Carl Ijames"
wrote: I highly recommend the program engineering power tools, athttp://www.pwr-tools.com/ Freeware version is very useful, and the full version price is only $50. Has a section properties calculator where you can draw arbitrary shapes, hollow or solid, and it will calculate the moment of inertia and other properties. I checked a few geometries by hand and they were fine. Also has a properties calculator for several standard geometries, and I check them and found a bug, which the author fixed quickly. I drew this so that the base of the web was centered at (0,0), in inches, so the top of the flange starts at (-15.75,78.75) and ends at (15.75,78.75), and got these results: Area 52.875 Xcg 0.00 Ycg 56.593 Ix 204440. Iy 1953.83 Ixy 0.00 Ix0 35093.14 Iy0 1953.83 Ixy0 0.00 J 37046.98 Whe Area - Total area (adjusted for any defined voids) Xcg - Centroid of section (distance from X axis) Ycg - Centroid of section (distance from Y axis) Ix - Moment of inertia (about the X axis) Iy - Moment of inertia (about the Y axis) Ixy - Moment of inertia (about the XY axis) Ixo - Moment of inertia (about centroidal X axis, parallel with original X axis) Iyo - Moment of inertia (about centroidal Y axis, parallel with original X axis) Ixyo - Moment of inertia (about centroidal XY axis) Theta - Angle between the principal axis and the XY axis Ix' - Moment of inertia (calculated at the specified "Delta Angle from Principal Axis" ) Iy' - Moment of inertia (calculated at the specified "Delta Angle from Principal Axis") J - Polar moment of inertia about principal axis Engineering Power Tools - Copyright 2002, Barry J. Opdahl Hope this is useful. -- Regards, Carl Ijames carl dott ijames aat verizon dott net (remove nospm or make the obvious changes before replying) wrote in message oups.com... On Oct 2, 10:16 am, "Rick" wrote: wrote in message ups.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray Break the cross section into two rectangles. Find the area of each and y, the distance their centroids are from the bottom. Multiply the area of each by the y of each. Add those up, then divide by the sum of the areas. That gives the centroid of the cross section. Next, calculate the moments of inertia of each section, then use the parallel axis transfer theorem to calculate their I at the centric of the cross section and add them up. Now you can calculate the section modulus. As I recall, that's how we did it in the old days, someone else will tell you the answer from some computer program shortly! ANYBODY that knows of or has a proven subroutine to calculate the section modulus of any reasonable cross section by spreadsheet, or whatever, please let me know. I am sick and tired of doing this by hand!!! A Tee section is tedious but straight forward; try an I-beam section where each of the 4 flange legs is a different thickness! Wolfgang Carl, Thanks very much! I shall check it out and try it. Wolfgang |
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Section modulus for T beam
You can find a lot of section properties in the Corus Blue Book,
http://www.corusconstruction.com/en/...tees_from_ubs/ "David Merrill" wrote in message news:XdxMi.114901$Xa3.551@attbi_s22... http://www.efunda.com/math/areas/IndexArea.cfm Suggest that you do the manual calculation also to verify that they agree. David Merrill wrote in message s.com... I have a T beam web 6'-6"x3/8" thick, flange 31.5" x 3/4". The T beam is 76'-6" long.Let me know if you can help to find the Section Modulus. thanks, Ray |
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