Heres a link to the picture of the problem. It would take forever to describe.
http://postimage.org/image/6xzdu2s27/
Parts 1-6: Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the forces at pins A, B, and C.
Parts 7,8: Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the reactions at the fixed support D
Any help would be greatly appreciated! :D :D
http://postimage.org/image/6xzdu2s27/
Parts 1-6: Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the forces at pins A, B, and C.
Parts 7,8: Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the reactions at the fixed support D
Any help would be greatly appreciated! :D :D
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I am not going to do the problem for you but I will give you some direction, you should also try to find similar examples in your book. My first step would be to draw a free body diagram of the whole structure and derive equilibrium equations from the FBD. In this step you will be solving for the reactions at support D. Solve for whatever reaction forces you can. Then the next step is to break each component of the structure down into their own individual free body diagrams. So link DCB gets its own free body diagram, same for link CA and link BA. Derive the equilibrium equations for each of those links. You are now going to have a certain number of equations and unknowns, you can solve them simultaneously. As a side note, Link CA is a "two force member" (look it up in your book) use this to your advantage as it will eliminate several reaction forces at C and A