Each cable of the side spans of the Golden Gate Bridge supports a load w =10.2 kips/ft

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Each cable of the side spans of the Golden Gate Bridge supports a load w =10.2 kips/ft along the horizontal. Knowing that for the side spans the maximum vertical distance h from each cable to the chord AB is 30 ft and occurs at midspan, determine

(a) The maximum tension in each cable,

(b) The slope at B.



-100 ft- в h= 30 ft 496 it 10.2 kipvn

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Vector Mechanics for Engineers Statics and Dynamics

ISBN: 978-0073212227

8th Edition

Authors: Ferdinand Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Elliot Eisenberg, William Clausen, David Mazurek, Phillip Cornwell

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