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📐 Product Design Trade-offs: 2D Beam Study

Interactive 2D product-design study: side view, bending-moment and shear diagrams for a loaded cantilever with material and cross-section choices.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategoryPhysics & Mechanics

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSix materials and five cross-sections with height, width, wall thickness, length, load mass and load position sliders; required safety factor and stiffness targets; drag the weight along the beam, click Pareto dots to load a design, one-click lightest design that meets the spec.

product designbeam bendingmaterial selectionstresspareto front

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⚙ Under the hood

Interactive 2D study of a loaded cantilever: choose material and cross-section, drag the weight, and watch stress colours, bending-moment diagram and a Pareto chart of mass versus deflection.

product designbeam bendingmaterial selectionstresspareto front

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install