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Benchmark beam model: Welded joints

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Benchmark beam model: Welded joints

- [Instructor] In the previous video, we saw that the structure made up of beams seemed to be behaving in a truss-like manner. Let's just now double-check that. So right-mouse-click on Results and choose Define Beam Diagrams. We can check the pin here. At the moment, we're looking at Sheer Force in direction one, if you look at the axial force, check okay We need to make sure we're set to pound force. We can see, again, the correct values, 1831 and 13940. They're actually plotted at an angle or in a plane to those beam elements, so it's axial load only. So that looks fine. Now with the pin down, we can change the type of beam diagram we're going to look at. So I want to change this to moment about direction one. Check OK. Pound force inches. Check OK. Now there's some values appear as if there is a bending moment distribution, but the order of nine e to the three is the maximum, so they're small spurious values due to rounding errors. Let's do the same for moment two. Check OK. Again…

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