Originally posted by John Breen:
The loadings are going somewhere, make sure you agree with the credibility of the resulting load path. If you have modeled the dummy leg with an "anchor" (six degrees of fixity) at its end, I would ask you how that could be done, how would it be built.
Bolts are probably the most common solution, although I have seen welded base plates from time to time. That's about as fixed as you can get.
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