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Given information

Given:

Safety factor,  

Mass of the beam  

Length of the beam  

 

 

 

 

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Formula used:

The compressive strength of the steel column is given by,

Where F is the force on the column and A is the cross-sectional area of the column.

 

As,  

So,  

The force in the left vertical column is , and using a safety factor of 3:

 

 

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