Ok, ok. I know it's not welding, but I am trying to understand deflection rates for mild steel and was wondering whether anyone knows of any tables or a web site where I can enter the section dimensions and span and work out how much deflection I would get just with gravity ?
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Yeah, nah.
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I find this a very useful programme... Download and use on trial. You can't print results (although you can do a snapshot of the page of course) and there's a watermark. Apart from that it works as it should. You can specify material type, shape, size etc and it will give deflections too. Not sure if it'll give you a gravity deflection... probably will though - you can always put a nominal low weight in to give it something to think about.
http://www.superbeam.co.uk/sbw.htm
There's also "Prosteel", linked on that same page. I've not used it, but it looks like it might be at least as useful.
http://www.superbeam.co.uk/sbw.htm
There's also "Prosteel", linked on that same page. I've not used it, but it looks like it might be at least as useful.
No, a uniform distributed load equal to the self weight. I would have thought most structural calculation programmes would factor this in if you are putting a section size in to start with, haven't tried superbeam myself though.
