Well, do you need reminder?no one have talking about the structure to yeild and fail, I dont think that anyone can have taken my first recommendation as if it was close to fall apart, in all construction you have a recommended amount of mm per meter that you can allow the structure to move as I'm sure you know. And I don't remember what I said but I think it was L/500 so if you just would have looked at that comment you maybe even wouldn't have started to complain about my recomendation.
This is a really neat setup, especially with bifacial for the sonw to beam in from all angles. But if we calculate with a large sized panel of 1300x2400 it will be an insane power at the shaft/Beam If the beam is mounted in strongest direction perpendicular to the panels and the force will be around 100-120kg/sqm. You are looking at a single HEB 600 to manage the wind force with tolerance and without any plastic deformation. What beam is it right now? I have been thinking of building a 10m long fence with bifacial pointing east/west to get some moringin evening power and also extra power during winter when beaming from snow, but I think this is a better idea, with a tower. But the vertical beam need to be very powerful as shown above.
Hi, Im not sure about your background but I am a mechanical engineer and have constructed all kind random products for a profession. I'm sorry to say but a HEB600 by itself would never ever be used for a tall bridge You usually have either massive towers with wires helping with the support between towers or you use a structure below road surface so the total thickness of the surface below the car is way more than 600mm. I dont have Inventor on this Computer so I didnt do a FEM analysis myself, Ijust calculated with E module as 2.1x10^5 which is common for normal steel and used Eulers case with 1 fixed point and the second free hanging. If you show me your calculation I guess we can see where it has been wrong. But the whole area of the thing blowing with a pressure of +110kg/sqm will be 2.4x2x6x110 = 3200kg and to simplify you can put that as one force on middle of beam = 3m up on the beam. And you can load it some more before plastic deformation occur but not much and the HEB 500 will not handle the +3000kg load. Can you show your calculation and we can compare?
Ok, enough of beating this dead horse for me.