beam design SS floor deck triangular load 01

Dimensions:

a
b
c
  12 in  
  7 ft  
  3.1 ft  

Problem Statement:
A wooden deck is constructed to support a haystack as shown. The joists of the floor are to be made with dressed air-dry douglas fir lumber with nominal widths of 2 inches. You know that a 14"x18"x36" square bale of this kind of hay weighs 67 lb, and you are assuming the hay in the haystack has the same density as these square bales. (This is probably a conservative estimate, since the bales are probably denser than the stack in reality.) You would like to design the joists to have a factor of safety of 5 against yielding. Determine the following:

(a) The maximum value of the distributed load applied to one joist.
(b) The maximum bending moment experienced by one joist.
(c) The minimum required height h of the joists.
(d) The minimum required section modulus of the joists.
(e) The smallest standard lumber size acceptable to use for joists.

Answers:
(a) =
(b) =
(c) =
(d) =
(e) Lumber Choice =

be sure to include units with your answers

You can earn partial credit on this problem.