You are a newly minted design engineer working with a bridge design firm. As a part of

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You are a newly minted design engineer working with a bridge design firm. As a part of your training you are instructed to design a girder for a new bridge project. You are given the vehicle load, weight per unit length, and the dimensions of the cross-section of the girder. You are asked to determine, for three materials, the maximum length cross-section of the girder. You are asked to determine, for three materials, the maximum length of the girder that that will maintain a safety factor, n _d, of 3. The safety factor is calculated as follows

Nd = ? _rs / ? _von

where ? _vonis the von Mises Stress.

Structure of Report

Draw and properly label a Free Body Diagram (include arrows indicate where external forces are transmitted and how they transmitted)

List the Number of Known's and Unknown?s (assume the external forces and moments are known)

Write the Equations of Equilibrium (Sum of the Force, Sum of Moments)

Draw the shear and bending moment diagrams.

Find the location along the beam where the shear force and bending moments are maximized.

Identify the critical locations along the cross-section.

Calculate the State of Stress at these critical locations.

Calculate the Von Mises stress at these critical locations.

Identify where Von Mises stress is highest.

Check for safety.

Determine the optimal length for the three materials.

Figure 2 - Schematic of a 1-Beam girder. Weight is assumed to a single concentrated force at the middle of the bridge. The vehicle load travels across the bridge from zero to L meters.

Beam Dimensions h = 382mm, w = 328mm, t = 32.6mm, l _x= 100510cm ⁴

Vehicle Load F = 100KN