Solve the following Problems. Situation 1 A timber beam having a simple span of 4m carries a total load including its own weight of 15kN/m. It has a trapezoidal section having width of 250 mm at the top and 200 mm at the bottom and a depth of 360 mm, dressed dimension is used by reducing its dimensions by 15 mm. The wooden section is made up of 80% grade Apitong with the properties as follows: fb = 16.5 MPa fv = 1.75 MPa Compute the following: a. Maximum flexural stress b. Maximum shear stress
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