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The Centre of Shear of Aerofoil Sections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

John A. Jacobs*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto

Extract

Consider a cantilever beam of uniform cross section whose generators are parallel to the z-axis and whose lateral surface is free from surface tractions. The line of centroids of the cross sections in the unstrained state is taken as the z-axis, and the x- and y-axes are the principal axes of the cross section at the centroid of the fixed end z = 0.

The other end of the beam (z = l) is subject to forces which reduce to a single force with components (Wx, Wv, 0), transverse to the z-axis, acting through the load point L of this end section (see Fig. 1). The co-ordinates of L are taken as (p, q, l).

Type
Technical Notes
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1953

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