The forces shown are the resultant downward loads on sections of the flat roof of a building

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The forces shown are the resultant downward loads on sections of the flat roof of a building because of accumulated snow. If the snow represented by the 116-kip force is shoveled so that this load acts at E, determine a and b knowing that the point of application of the resultant of the four loads is then at B.


The forces shown force is shoveled so that this load acts at E,

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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