Question: Problem 2 : As an engineer for an implant design company, the FDA contacts you because it is receiving reports that your company's bone pin

Problem 2: As an engineer for an implant design company, the FDA contacts you because it is receiving reports that your company's bone pin implant is failing in patients, a less than ideal situation. Your bone pin is used to stabilize a fracture of the fifth metatarsal and the FDA would like to work with you to identify the problem. After analyzing how the adhesive for the bone pin (aka the beam) attaches into the bone, you draw an approximate free body diagram of the complex loading and connection to other biologic structures (aka the supports) shown below. It includes a fixed support at the left end.
If the magnitude of the flexural yield stress (this is a synonym for bending yield) is 42MPa and you don't want any plastic deformation, what is the maximum load F that can be applied downward to the end of the bone pin? Justify with an appropriately labeled moment diagram that shows how you decided where the maxsmin(s) were. (Desmos is my favorite easy graphing website). Given: d=3cm,w=4Ncm peak, x=0 at the wall.
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Problem 2 : As an engineer for an implant design

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