In an engineering problem, to design some thing/any thing you must know what the actual load or weight it must support.
So that is load or loading.
Some Engineering material are much stronger in tension length wise, then the width wise, so you need to know orientation of the load, with respect to orientation of material, eg wood beams, steel sheets, all of these behave different when loaded differently.
When a beam is flipped up words, it become a column, and the load is at the top as a rule.
2006-12-07 22:58:00
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answer #1
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answered by minootoo 7
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from what i know
Longitudinal is length wise
transverse is breadth wise.
the third is Verticals
So u have longitudinal or transverse beams and verticals or pillars or columns.
2006-12-07 22:33:05
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answered by sweet tooth 2
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