Review -- Week 4

Beam Loadings

•     Most common type of loading

•         Cantilevered

•         Simply Supported

•         Statically Indeterminate

Review of Important Analytical Techniques

•     2nd Moment of Area--composite values

•     Parallel Axis Theorem

Singularity Functions

•     load intensity function

•     Shear

•     Moment

•     Slope

•     deflection

Superposition

•     Use combinations of simple models to find deflections for sophisticated models

•     Must be linear relationship