A seemingly simple class experiment is executed
The highlight of the practical and FEA assignment is the feedback session, when the students are presented with their online submitted answers in graph form, like this one:
FEA Assignment results
Take note that only a single experiment was executed, and the test interpretation, hand calculation and FEA results should only represent that single experiment; yet, the results show a different story altogether.
The big class discussion then follows: How to find the correct answer for this problem?
A number of real-world examples of cantilevered structures:
