Design Blueprint: Window Lock Spacing
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24121748): A wide sliding or casement window fitted with a single central lock can be opened by prying at a corner, flexing the meeting rail until the latch clears its keeper, without breaking anything. This study models the rail as a beam from stated values: a 700 N pry, an aluminium rail of elastic modulus 69 GPa and second moment of area 7.5e-9 m^4, and a 6 mm flex at which the latch disengages. Deflection grows with the cube of the unsupported span, reaching 6.09 mm at 0.6 m and 14.43 mm at 0.8 m, and the widest span that stays below the escape gap is 0.59 m. A window 1.8 m wide therefore needs 3 loc 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: W7225823727
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