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[dan]

Hi, I am working on designing a steel and wood helical staircase. The engineer for the architect needs to make sure that the wood framing and its connections can support the loads applied by the stairs. He is asking me for the reaction from the stairs is where it ties into the LVL (engineered wood beam). I am not sure if Discovery live can provide this? If so how?

[Subashni Ravichandran]

Hello Ironmandan1 Select a location where you would want to check the reaction forces, and click on the monitors option. The monitors drop down has a couple of options for reaction force and reaction resultant.

[dan]

See below.

[Ethan Thompson]

Ironmandan1 - Contact reaction is not supported in the Explore stage, but is available in the Refine stage.  Reaction force and reaction resultant are used at constraints and supports respectively