[TowerTalk] Bird loading and elements

[Martin, AA6E]

It's a dynamics problem, not only statics.  Those birds are conducting
flight operations after all.  If you shoot at them, they'll all take
off at once, and then you'll be sorry. That's if they jump up to take
off. :-)

-Martin

On 5/4/05, D. Scott MacKenzie <kb0fhp at comcast.net> wrote:
> Actually, determining failure from static bird loading is relatively easy to
> calculate.  Any introductory statics (or strength of materials) book will
> explain the basic techniques.  It is really only a couple of equations to
> calculate the deflection, and the number of birds required to cause an
> element to fail.  The only things needed are the number of birds, the weight
> of the birds (easy to estimate from any bird book), the size of the element
> (diameter, length and wall thickness), and the alloy (it can probably be
> assumed to be 6063-T6).....
> 
> The actual calculation is left as an exercise for the student......
>