Welcome to beambending

Okay, which concerns does this project address?

• You are taking your first course on statics and you would like to have a more interactive way of visualizing shear forces and bending moments diagrams.

• You feel you understand better when you have some examples you can modify at will.

• You want to review the basic theory, double-check that you are doing things right and test yourself with some new problems.

• You are teaching a course on statics and want to generate practice problems automatically.

If any of these statements describe you, it may be a good idea to take a quick look at this project.

Getting started

• First steps

Theory

• Background knowledge
• Beam diagrams
  • Normal force \(N(x)\)
  • Shear force \(V(x)\) and moment \(M(x)\)
• Relationship between shear force and bending moment

Examples

• Beam with two point loads and two distributed loads
  • Specifications
  • Results
  • Code

User documentation

• Beambending Reference
  • Example
  • Beam
  • PointTorque
  • PointLoad
  • DistributedLoad