A hollow tube extruded with the shape of an equilateral triangle is shown in the figure below. Its base is 4.5 in. long and its wall thickness is 0.15 in. The tube is subjected to a torque of 1000 in lbf. If the tube is fabricated from aluminium and is 38 in. long, determine the maximum value of the average shearing stress and the angle of twist of the tube. Tavg o = 1 number (rtol-0.01, atol=1e-05) number (rtol=0.01, atol=1e-05) O ksi
A hollow tube extruded with the shape of an equilateral triangle is shown in the figure below. Its base is 4.5 in. long and its wall thickness is 0.15 in. The tube is subjected to a torque of 1000 in lbf. If the tube is fabricated from aluminium and is 38 in. long, determine the maximum value of the average shearing stress and the angle of twist of the tube. Tavg o = 1 number (rtol-0.01, atol=1e-05) number (rtol=0.01, atol=1e-05) O ksi
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Transcribed Image Text:A hollow tube extruded with the shape of an equilateral triangle is shown in the figure below. Its base is 4.5 in.
long and its wall thickness is 0.15 in. The tube is subjected to a torque of 1000 in lbf. If the tube is fabricated
from aluminium and is 38 in. long, determine the maximum value of the average shearing stress and the angle
of twist of the tube.
Tavg
6 =
number (rtol-0.01, atol=1e-05)
number (rtol-0.01, atol=1e-05)
ksi
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