Hi
I hope someone can explain this to me. I have put a fixed and a free support on a beam. Also I have put both vertical and horisontal forces on it.
My question is now:
Why is the reacting force in X for the free support not 0?
The fixed support should have a horisontal reaction force of 12 kN.
The reaction forces in Y looks perfectly fine, so this puzzles me..
There's not much design. I have noticed earlier that Inventor came up with results that I thought was incorrect, so I just made up a very simple beam design with only one horisontal force.
This is how Inventor shows it, but F1 consists of 2 composants, vertical 10kN and horisontal 12 kN. The horisontal reaction at pnt1 should be 12 kN because pnt2 is free and therefore moving horisontally.
I teach Inventor and statics, so I thought of using the beam calculator, but if there is a bug here I have to continue using the old pen and paper, which is a lot easier for an old man like me, than it is for my students;-)
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