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Beams and columns

03/26/2009 1:42 AM

What is the difference between beams and columns?

Where they can be used?
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Re: Beams and columns

03/26/2009 4:30 AM

A column is a vertical member and a beam is a horizontal one. The cross-sections will be different. There are textbooks on structural mechanics that detail the application of these cross-sections and to these must be the next step.

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Re: Beams and columns

03/27/2009 2:53 AM

Thank you PWslack,

Can you give a practical example where columns and beams are used.What will happen if we use beam in place of column.What are the modes of failure for them.

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