1. Catenary Tutorial Part-2
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Catenary Tutorial Part-2
Bruce Mayer, PE
Licensed Electrical & Mechanical Engineer

2. 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

6.  file = Hanging_Chain_Cat_AnonFcn_0803.m

7. The MATLAB Plot
Soln at u = 0 for

8. w/ Anonymous Fcn

9. The MATLAB code

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

11. By Excel
The Transcendental Eqn