I'm designing a small trailer. Its unladen weight will be 50 kg, and fully laden weight will be 250 kg. I need a shock absorber solution to adequately suit both extreme loading scenarios. I have had difficulty identify one. How would a designer within industry solve this problem, please?
I have...
I am embarrassed to be posting this and asking for your help. I should know the answer. However, my knowledge is rusty, and my confidence shot.
The problem: what is the maximum stress acting on each of the two bolts, as labelled in the diagram? (A third, lower, bolt connects the upper arm to...
I'm designing a chassis for a cargo trailer to be pulled by a motorcycle. It needs to be as compact as possible; there are severe limits on the thickness of the chassis, and the overall height, length, and width, and also weight, of the final trailer.
With the above in mind, the image, below...
Is there a simple program that can automatically determine in the most efficient way how many x-metre lengths of square section extrusion are needed for a given design comprising multiple different lengths of the same square section? A program that can also take many different sheet steel sizes...
