In trying to analyze a wire braced wing (http://www.rasdoc.com/splinter/GuyWire.gif)
I found a really neat program that I used to calculate forces.
I was not really using it for what it was intended, but it could be really helpful for those that want to do linkage or mechanism design.
The tool is called sam 5.0 from http://www.artas.nl/
I wrote up an example of using it to calculate wire stresses...
http://www.rasdoc.com/splinter/stress/Streesample.htm
If the pictures are too small to read I can upload an improved version, I was trying to minimize bandwidth it's big enough already...
Paul
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