Catenary Tutorial Part-2 Engineering 25 Catenary Tutorial Part-2 Bruce Mayer, PE Licensed Electrical & Mechanical Engineer BMayer@ChabotCollege.edu

The Problem An 8m length of chain has a lineal unit mass of 3.72 kg/m. The chain is attached to the Beam at pt-A, and passes over a small, low friction pulley at pt-B. Determine the value(s) of distance a for which the chain is in equilibrium

 file = Hanging_Chain_Cat_AnonFcn_0803.m

The MATLAB Plot Soln at u = 0 for

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The MATLAB code

The Answers c1 = 0.3773 c2 = 5.9056 a1 in meters = 2.6844 5.9904

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