Structural Engineering & Statics
where the load goes
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Diagram relations — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. Load, shear and moment — a simple span. The applied load, the shear force it produces and the bending moment that follows, drawn one above another to the same horizontal scale. Shear is the integral of the load and moment is the integral of shear.

    The diagram is an integral, and that is why it can be drawn by eye

    Load, shear and moment are one function and its two integrals. Once that is seen, the diagrams stop being things to calculate and become things to sketch.

    part 1 · internal-forces

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