% beams.m % brody dylan johnson % 06.26.21 clear; close all; % data (cm) x = [0:5:85]; un = [75.6 75.5 75.4 75.3 75.1 75.0 74.8 74.6 74.5 74.3 74.1 ... 73.9 73.8 73.5 73.3 73.0 72.8 72.7]; vn = [75.6 75.3 75.0 74.5 73.9 73.3 72.4 71.5 70.5 69.5 68.4 ... 67.3 66.0 64.8 63.4 62.1 61.1 59.6]; % Old Data % x = [0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 85]; % un = [75.2475 75.2475 74.93 74.6125 74.295 73.9775 73.66 ... % 73.18375 72.7075 72.39]; % vn = [75.2475 74.9300 73.6600 73.3425 70.1675 67.9450 ... % 65.4050 62.7063 59.6900 58.4200]; % observed deflections w1ob = un(1)-un; w2ob = un-vn; % physical constants g = 9.81; % N/kg rho = 7.8e-3; % kg/cm^3 E = 2e7; % N/cm^2 b = 0.5*2.54; % cm h = 0.125*2.54; % cm I = b*h^3/12; % cm^4 ell = 85; % cm W0 = rho*b*h*g; % N/cm W1 = 0.5*g; % N a = 80; % cm % theoretical deflections w13dot = -W0*ell/(E*I); w12dot = W0*ell^2/(2*E*I); w1 = w13dot*x.^3/6 + w12dot*x.^2/2 ... + W0*x.^4/(24*E*I); w23dot = -W1/(E*I); w22dot = W1*a/(E*I); w2 = w23dot*x.^3/6 + w22dot*x.^2/2 ... + W1*(x-a).^3.*(x>a)/(6*E*I); % graphs figure; plot(x,w1ob,'sk',x,w1,'-b'); legend('Observed','Predicted','Location','southeast'); ylabel('Deflection (cm)'); xlabel('x (cm)'); axis([0 85 0 3]); set(gca,'FontSize',16) figure; plot(x,w2ob,'sk',x,w2,'-b'); legend('Observed','Predicted','Location','southeast'); ylabel('Deflection (cm)'); xlabel('x (cm)'); axis([0 85 0 15]); set(gca,'FontSize',16)