Explain Camber Design and Benefits

here it comes all right here it comes okay so I I just turned on the camera this gets edited out it's fine guys Seth Adrian you guys know Trevor the crazy Canadian they're all Beauty freaking crazy Canadians um this is the only you you guys explain it's got a camber to it but this is the only flat deck trailer that has a camber because they can't have a camber otherwise so this is built like a semi-trailer am I right or wrong I don't you you guys tell me you're the engineers yeah yeah that's correct you can't put a camber on I beam you have to have an engineered beam so you can have a camber in the deck I beam is just a straight flat trailer this has the camber how much camber is in this oh it varies per trailer this one is well we don't do it by like inches of camber we do it by radius so it's a constant radius camber be around two two two in in the center probably this one is a 26-footer so yeah we're looking between like about 2 and 1 half Ines probably okay what is the benefit of camber though it gives you a more efficient beam so normally uh you have a straight IE beam as as it as it flexes down your entire beam is going into tension some tension at the top of the beam a lot of tension at the bottom of the beam with this the top of the beam's in compression the bottom of the beam's in tension about the same amount and the center of the beam is neutral so it's it's carrying a lot of weight without being put into too much stress so your strength to weight ratio of that beam is basically you have a higher strength for a less weight of your beam so that's basically what it's what it's doing and then aesthetically wise as you load that it's coming down comes down nice and flat and it just looks like it's designed for it rather than if it was straight and it's flexing down it looks like your trailer is starting to break and then if you hit a big bump when you're flexing down you can go into fatigue mode right so this helps you to to lengthen the life of the trailer potentially yeah that's correct because you have less stress in the center of the beam you have overall your beam is less stressed all the time so your fatigue your fatigue life is going to be higher because you have less stress Peaks so especially with those big bumps your stress isn't going to go as high so your fatigue life is going to be extended okay so I never seen another