GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-94-14
Title:
GT Shear - An Interactive Graphic Program for Shear and Bending Stresses
of thin Walled Structures
Authors:
David Thomas
Kurt C. Gramoll
Abstract:
Engineering students historically find it difficult to deal with the
subjects of shear and bending stress distribution, and shear flow as it
relates to thin-walled structures. This is particularly true for complex
cross-sections that are common in Aerospace Engineering, such as
z-sections and hat-sections. These types of cross-sections are
unsymmetric in both the vertical and horizontal direction, making hand
calculations difficult. As a result, these topics are usually introduced
only after students have had several mechanics courses. To assist with
the solution of such problems as interactive graphic program, GT Shear,
has been developed to design beam cross-sections by graphically showing
the resultant shear and bending stress distribution on the cross-section.
Keywords:
GT Shear, engineering, bending and shear stresses, cross-sections
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