Design Blueprint: Fence Post Wind
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121597): A solid garden fence is a sail, and its posts are the masts. This study computes post bending stress under a stated gust pressure of 0.55 kN per square metre on a 1.8 m solid fence, with each interior post carrying one bay and acting as a 125 mm square timber section of stated allowable bending stress 8 MPa. Stress rises in direct proportion to bay width: 4.92 MPa at the conventional 1.8 m spacing, reaching the allowable limit at a spacing of 2.92 m and 8.2 MPa at 3.0 m. Widening bays from 1.8 m to 3.0 m would save about 6.7 posts over a 30 m run, but it spends the entire structural margin to Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.
Author: Aldred, William Alexander
Language: English
Topic: Engineering Applied Research
Subfield: Civil and Structural Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225810480
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