Unit Weight / Self-Weight Load Calculator (Structural Members) implementation

Binding contract

This record describes what an executable surface must bind and validate. It does not claim that a public calculator, package, or production route is deployed.

Record owner

Guth Instruments

Lifecycle

verified-clean

Evidence ID

t5-191

Effect

Computation or source lookup only

Input and validation requirements

• Reject or clearly handle negative, non-finite, or missing density, weight density, area, and gravitational acceleration values.
• A zero area produces zero self-weight and should be accepted or explicitly defined as an invalid geometry boundary; negative area must be rejected.
• Do not apply g to γ because γ already includes gravitational acceleration.
• Unit mismatches, especially mm² versus m² and N/m³ versus kN/m³, can cause errors by factors of 10⁶ or 1000.
• The calculator should identify the load direction as downward and should not imply that the scalar magnitude alone fully defines a structural load.
• No division-by-zero operation is present in the stated formulas, but any later conversion or derived calculation must guard against zero denominators.

Required corrections

No binding erratum is attached to this unique-name record. Implementers must still preserve the declared units, domain, and failure behavior.

Inspectable interface fixture

The sample below is evidence for interface and validation tests, not a production implementation.

{
  "inputs": {
    "density_rho": 7850,
    "density_unit": "kg/m³",
    "area_A": 0.01,
    "area_unit": "m²",
    "g": 9.80665,
    "g_unit": "m/s²"
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "w": 769.822025,
    "w_unit": "N/m",
    "w_kN_per_m": 0.769822025
  },
  "working": "w=ρ·A·g\n=7850 kg/m³ × 0.01 m² × 9.80665 m/s²\n=78.5 kg/m × 9.80665 m/s²\n=769.822025 N/m\n=0.769822025 kN/m"
}

Other records

Sources and evidence

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• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json
• evidence-tranche5/tranche5-results.json