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Recall basic principles: transmissibility and parallelogram rule.
A reasonable solution.
An error:

In the last step the forces were combined using tip-to-tail, rather than the parallelogram rule.
The tip-to-tail method works only for concurrent forces. For non-concurrent forces, you need to use transmissibility, the paralleogram rule, and equivalent couples.
| Arch 324/624, Introduction to Structural Design, University
of Virginia Copyright © 1996-2008 Kirk Martini. Last Modified Mon, 04-Feb-2008 15:48 |
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