kaylee tucker

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envelope stresses

axial forces, gravity loads

axial forces, wind loads

beam reactions, gravity loads

beam reactions, wind loads

shear forces, gravity loads

shear forces, wind loads

flexure moments, gravity loads

flexure moments, wind loads

deflections, gravity loads

deflections, wind loads

through our analysis of our structure, we found that previous gravity load predictions were inaccurate. the wineva diagrams show shear diagrams that are triangular and vary between positive and negative values, while we had predicted only negative shear forces.

however, the predictions we made for wind loads last semester were fairly accurate. the shear and moment diagrams look identical to those we drew in the last assignment. we suspect that the range written on the axial load diagram is a range for the distributed load, which would correspond to what we had predicted.

we noticed in our analysis that combination 3 (gravity loads), resulted in more critical values in most places, though not everywhere. while the moments on the left-most concrete support are quite low for both combinations, the wind loads are slightly higher; 0.98knm as compared to -0.695knm. what was surprising was the direction of both the moments and the direction of the beam reactions. we were not expecting them to be opposite signs, but given the nature of the lateral loads, this does make sense.