Question: Compare the crippling loads given by Euler’s and Rankine’s formulae for a steel strut 2.5 m long having outer & inner diameter as 40 mm and30 mm respectively loaded through pin jointed at the ends. Take yield stress as 320 N/mm 2 the Rankine’s constant 1 7500, E = 2 × 105 MPa.
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