What is the state of stress on the legs of the bookshelves w

What is the state of stress on the legs of the bookshelves when fully filled with books? PLEASE make (and state) reasonable and realistic assumptions about dimensions of structures. Based on your assumptions, you are expected to make quantitative calculations and present numerical results. You are expected to calculate and present the \"state-of-stress\".

Solution

Stress is defined as the force/ area.

As it is a stationary body so only gravtional force acts on a body. Force = mass* gravity

Assume the mass of the as it is not given and assume the dimensions of the book rank.

we can calculate the force, area and stress by the formula given above.

do the calcultions with the given dimensions( if given) if not u can assume.

Or the other way is by making stress tensor in X,Y, Z axis in that case consider normalization as:[ 1 0 0]