Bracket Design and Analysis

Brief

Company has provided a rough sketch of their flower basket bracket and would like some analysis performed to test whether the design is feasible.

Rough sketch

The distance to the hanging load, A, was determined to be around 300 mm, allowing for the radius of the basket and clearance from the wall.

The chosen bracket material: mild steel

Testing

The weight of the basket tested was 12 Kg. The bracket’s performance was poor.

Bracket yields close to wall fixing.

Bracket not strong enough to support load and is displaced significantly.

To improve upon the client’s design, without altering the original significantly, a support was added. The mild steel still yields under load, however.

Bracket now yields along middle section.

Displacement is reduced in this design.

Conclusion

The design supplied by the client is not suitable for the hanging of a flower basket. A completely new design is needed.