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Elastic Foundations
The deflection of beams where the foundations are not rigid.
Contents
1. Beams On Elastic
There are many problems in which a beam is supported on a compressible foundation which exerts a distributive reaction on the
Beam of intensity proportional to the compressibility.
Foundations.
2. (a) Long Beam Carrying A
Central Load.
In some cases the foundations can only exert upward forces and the beam may, if it is sufficiently long, lose contact with the
foundation. In other cases pressure may be exerted either way. Again the support may not be truly continuous( eg. the support of
is the upward deflection of the foundation at any point, then the rate of upward reaction is -
If
A Load.
5. Page Comments
Or
(2)
where
A solution to
At
And
Also
Giving:
Thus,
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At
which determines the length in contact with the ground. The value of the constant
obtained from the condition that the Shear Force at the centre is
either side of the load and it must change by an amount
is
Hence,
Or
The maximum Deflection and Bending Moment are at the centre,
If
in case (a) above, the Beam will sink below the unstressed level of the foundations at all points. Again taking the
origin at the left hand end and the overall length of the Beam as
At
And
And
At
And
Thus
Solving for
and
is now known, the maximum deflection and Bending Moment occur under the load.
axis at the undeformed level, a solution to equation (2) can be written in the form:
since
as
At
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And
Giving
And
The distance from the load at which
is given by:
(3)
Example - Example 1
[imperial]
Example:
Problem
A steel railway track is supported on timber sleepers which exert an equivalent load of 400lb./in. length of rail per inch
deflection from its unloaded position. For each rail
and
If a point load of 10 tons acts on each rail, find the length of rail over which the sleepers are depressed and the maximum
Bending Stress in the rail.
Workings
Each rail can be considered to be an infinitely long beam for which the length over which the downward deflection occurs is
given by equation (2)
Solution
The length is
The maximum Bending Stress in the rail is
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