Loads and Forces

Hi again everyone!!! Today I will be talking about meows! 

me·ow

mēˈou/

noun

1. 1.

   the characteristic crying sound of a cat.

verb

1.

(of a cat) make a characteristic crying sound.

synonyms:

mew, mewl, cry More

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No! Just kidding!!!! I will be talking about forces and loads. If you don't know what I mean by that, read the following:

Here are some examples of forces:

1. Squeezing:  Compression - a pressing force that squeezes materials together.
2. Stretching:  Tension- a force that stretches a material apart.
3. Bending: Buckle- the force makes one side of the material squeezes together and the other stretches apart
4. Sliding:  Shear - a force that causes part of the material to slide past one another in opposite directions.
5. Twisting:  Torsion - an action that twists a material

Loads are what they sound like, loads. Whether it is someone sitting on a chair (live load) or the actually chair itself (dead load). In this post, I will be focusing on loads around my house and the forces that are taking place on them. Well, here goes…

Not my actual table.

An example would be the dinner table. The live loads on it would be anything set on top, like forks, spoons, and knives…, any type of food or dish/plate/cup, or just anything we put on to it like books , paper , CDs , or computers. The dead load would be the table itself, including the wood and glue used to make it. 

The force taking place is mostly compression from gravity and the weigh of all the things on it.

An interesting thing is, I could be a dead load and a live load. For example, my hair is a dead load to me. It is part of me and is always connected to me (unless I shave of course). The things that I am wearing, like my watch and my clothes, are a live load. 

Loads and forces are everywhere!!! The chair you are currently sitting on, the screen that you are looking at!!! 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED THIS POST!!! SEE YOU SOON!!

image credits: Table from http://discoversouthwestnm.com/wood-dining/33/reclaimed-wood-dining-tables/