Ladder

Connection design — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 100 kNe = 150centroidworst bolt 50.37 kNSix bolts · direct shear 16.67 kN eachelastic vector method

    The connection is not a point, and every diagram on this site says it is

    Every free body drawn here has joined its members at points. Real structures fail at the joints far more often than in the members, and the reason is that a joint is exactly the region the theory behind every other page explicitly excludes.

    rung 1 · connections

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