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Interpolation based on a taper in steel construction
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First Steps with RFEM
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Since we civil engineers have to deal with tables very often, we would like to show you in this short video how to interpolate.
As an example, we look at a tapered member in RSTAB. The member is 1.81 m long and has a height of 500 mm at the member start and of 300 mm at the end.
We show you how to find out the member's height at a specific location by using interpolation.
Then, we verify the result in RSTAB.
Small deviations occur because the model's members are eccentrically connected to each other in RSTAB.
Have fun!
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