How can I explain. It might be a length of 56 inch wide conveyor belt hanging vertically. A flat one inch wide thing would still be heavier in the middle, hypothetically would it not? In any case a centre point load is the least desirable of the possible situations. Then the question would be...
Okay. The weld is the whole way around. It is a butt weld. There's at least 5 passes. It's built up a 1/4 inch. Hard corner on the 4 inch tube was chamfered.
Test lift was already done.
Load safety device on the crane read 35,000. So the actual load on the beam is less: 2,000 lb block, weight...
Sorry is that even remotely a useful diagram?
Also: it is well understood that I am not getting professional advice. I simply lack the google fu or knowledge to even ballpark the safe UDL of such stuff. I do not understand nor can calculate modulus of elasticity stuff or whatever.
A500 has a lower UDL before deformation? I want to know the best and worst case scenarios, best steel and thickest wall and worst steel and thinnest wall or please all 4 combos.
I am a stupid labourer being asked to do a sketchy lift and want to know some real material engineering numbers. I...
Have a lifting yoke with 7/8 inch lifting eyes welded onto the ends of a 3/16 or 1/4 inch wall 4x4 a500 or a513 square steel tube.
Expected UDL is as much as 35-40,000 lbs.
Is this tube going to fail?