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Dynamics: Engineering Mechanics
Dynamics: Engineering Mechanics
CHAPTER
ENGINEERING
VECTOR MECHANICS FOR ENGINEERS:
11
04 DYNAMICS
MECHANICS
Ferdinand P. Beer
E. Russell Johnston, Jr.
R.C. HIBBELER
The four cable forces are all concurrent at point O on this bridge tower.
Consequently they produce no resultant moment there, only a resultant
force FR. Note that the designers have positioned the cables so that FR is
directed along the bridge tower directly to the support, so that it does not
cause any bending of the tower.
Ex:
• pressure of the wind on the face of a sign
• pressure of water within a tank
• weight of sand on the floor of a storage container