Team Activity 8

Numerical Methods in Engineering

Using the Gaussian elimination module solve the following problems.

1. Consider the truss shown in the following figure.

(a) State the equilibrium conditions for the forces P1, P2, P3, P4 and P5 at each node.
near Algebraic Equations
Consider that the load is 1N. You will find some equations are repeated.

(b) Find the forces for the angle θ = 53∘

P4 P4
P2 P3 P3 P2

P2 P2
P3 P3
P1 P1 P1 P1

P5 Load = 1 P5

Let us assume that an economic system has n industries, each one having two kinds of
formulation 2.
of the symmetric truss shown results in the joint equilib-
demand. First, the external one coming out of the system. Second, the inner demand which
ations
is done to a certain industry by another one of the same system. Let ei denote the external
⎡ demand done to the ⎤ ⎡i-th industry
⎤ ⎡ and ⎤ aij stands for the inner demand done for the i-th
c 1 0 0 0 P1 0
⎢ 0 industry
s
to the j-th one. More precisely, this quantity represents the number of units of the
0 0 1⎥ ⎢ P ⎥ ⎢0⎥
⎢ industry “i”
⎢ product ⎥necessary
⎢ 2⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎥ ⎢ ⎥ to⎢produce ⎥ a unity of the industry “j” product. In addition, xi
⎢ 0 stands0 for
2s the0production
0 ⎥ ⎢ P3of⎥the
=⎢ 1 ⎥
i-th ⎥
industry. Let us assume that each industry production
⎢ ⎥⎢ ⎥ ⎢
⎣ 0 is −c c its
equal to 0 ⎦ ⎣ P4thus
1 demand, ⎦ the⎣ 0total
⎦ demand is the sum of both inner and external
0 demands.

s s 0 0 P5 0
(a) For a system with n = 3 industries show that the model can be formulated by the
following system of linear equations

sin θ , c = cos θ and Pi are the unknown forces. Write a program that
(1 − a11)x1 − a12 x2 − a13 x3 = e1

the forces, given the angle θ . Run the program with θ = 53◦ .
a21x1 + (1 − a22)x2 + a23 = e2

−a31x1 − a32 x2 + (1 − a33)x3 = e3

20 Ωthat the
(b) Assume 5 Ω external demands of the three industries are, 10, 25 and 20,
220 V
respectively.
i Suppose that

15 Ω

3
a11 =
R 0.2,a12 = 0.5,a
i1 13 = 0.15,a 21 = 0.4,a 22 = 0.1,a 23 = 0.3,a31 = 0.25,a32 = 0.5

5Ω

i2
And a33 = 0.15. Find each industry production such that its offer equals its demand.

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10 Ω

ical network shown can be viewed as consisting of three loops. Apply-

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ff’s law ( voltage drops = voltage sources) to each loop yields the
equations for the loop currents i1 , i2 and i3 :