Question 4 The 6 m long walkway of a scaffold is made by screwing two 360 mm by 15
mm sheets of plywood to 45 mm by 105 mm timbers as shown. The screws
have a 150 mm spacing along the length of the walkway. The working stress
in bending is $\sigma_w = 6$ MPa for the plywood and the timbers, and the allowable
shear force in each screw is $F_w = 1250$ N. Treating a walking person as a
moving point load, what limit should be placed on the weight W of a person
to walk safely across the plank?