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Continuity — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. 3 continuous spans against 3 simple ones. The bending moment in a continuous beam, solved by the stiffness method, drawn over the moment in the same spans made simply supported. The peak sagging moment falls from 30.6 to 19.6, and a hogging moment of 24.5 appears over the supports where there was none.

    The moment over the support, and what it buys

    Run a beam over its supports instead of stopping at each one, and the mid-span moment falls by a third while a new moment appears where there was none. Nothing was added but continuity.

    part 1 · internal-forces

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