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Laboratory 5: Bending
The bending of beams is one of the most important types of stress in engineering.
Bending is more likely to be a critical stress than other types of stress - like tension,
compression etc.
AIM
1. For a selection of engineering materials and section shapes: Determine;
2. Second moment of area (using simple shapes or CAD)
3. Bending Stress
4. Modulus of Elasticity E
5. Compare these values with published data (e.g. Matweb)
LABORATORY PROCEDURE
LABORATORY REPORT
1. Use Inventor to calculate Ixx for each beam. While you are still in the profile
sketch (i.e. before going to a solid)
Ribbon: Inspect tab > Measure panel > Region Properties > Select the
area > Click "Calculate".
(See Autocad notes in Footnote)
2. Ixx is the Second Moment of Area in bending with a vertical load. (i.e. the Neutral
axis is horizontal, or the x-x axis)
3. Write a short report on the beam bending results. Each beam must have at least
3 weights. Make sure the deflection does not exceed the travel of the dial
indicator (if so, use a lighter weight).
4. Using the equations above, calculate the value of E. Compare these values to the
values obtained from the internet. E.g. Matweb. Show the working for 1 example
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calculation, but only give the rest of the answers in a table. Use Excel to do your
calculations.
5. Determine the maximum stress for each mass (load) added to the beams.
6. Discuss any sources of error in the experiment - esp measurements - and how
they might affect the results. Specify an overall error for your calculation of E.
Bending Equations
For other shapes it is not so simple. We need to calculate these using a CAD program
(see footnote).
Deflection z = W * L3 / (48 * E * I)
so E = W * L3 / (48 * z * I)
Record the absolute error for each measurement: The absolute error is the sum of
several factors:
Absolute error = (Resolution / 2) + (Parallax error) + (misalignment error) + (systmatic
error)
Where: Resolution Error = smallest increment in the measurement scale. The human
limit is considered to be half of this again. For example, this dial gauge has smallest
increment = 0.01mm, so it is considered to be readable to 0.005mm.
Misalignment error: Not taking the measurement parallel or perpendicular. Eg.The dial
gauge is not vertical, the tape measure is at an angle, the caliper is not perpendicular etc.
This is not supposed to happen if you take the measurement carefully, but some
meaurements are more difficult than others.
Note:
In 2012 the deflection was measured manually using a dial caliper. This avoids the spring
force of the dial indicator changing the deflection of the lighter beams (e.g. wooden beam). It
also has greater deflection than the 10mm of the dial indicator.
Lab Notes
Web Links
From: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-2009/MOMENT-OF-INERTIA-second-
moment-of-area/td-p/2427626/page/2
When you need to find the second moment of area for complex profiles use massprop. (type
into command line)
Draw your profile close to the origin. Use polylines. If your profile has arcs, use the command
pedit to convert arcs to pline.
then convert to region (command line). If your profile is hollow, use subtract to subtract the
hole regions from the outer region.
then run massprop. If you didn't draw the object with centroid on the origin, then you need to
shift centroid onto the origin...
Locate centroid from massprop
Move profile to (X,Y)= (0,0)
Now run massprop again and you will get Ixx and Iyy
OK. Nice info. Now let's see if we can get this to actually work...
1. Polylines: If you didn't draw the shape in one continuous polyline, well, you should of.
Failing that, we'll have to convert them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SXh4eJWHbo
When a shape is closed (which it should be here), a quicker way is BPOLY. (Boundary
Creation in Polylines)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4qSbvCdcHc
2. Region: Yep. Just type Region and click the loop. Bingo - it's now a region.
3. Massprop: Seems to work fine too. I think you should be right from here... Should look
something like below.
Here's an example (Autocad screen dump) from an Area Moment question in 10305 Area
Moments, unit MEM30006A.