Question

Beams: 5b The C-shaped steel bar (E = 200GPa) is used as a dynamometer. Knowing that the cross section of the bar is 1.5 cm x 1.5 cm and that

the strain was measured on the inner edge at the bottom (point A shown) and was found to be 0.001, determine the magnitude of the forces P.

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