INTRODUCTION TO BEAMS FREE STUDY（介绍梁免费学习）.pdf

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS - BEAMS TUTORIAL 1 STRESSES IN BEAMS DUE TO BENDING This is the first tutorial on bending of beams designed for anyone wishing to study it at a fairly advanced level. You should judge your progress by completing the self assessment exercises. On completion of this tutorial you should be able to do the following.  Define a beam.  Recognise different types of beams.  Define BENDING MOMENT  Derive the BENDING FORMULAE for beams.  Calculate the stress in a beam due to bending.  Solve problems involving both bending and direct stress.  Find the position of the neutral axis for combined stress situations.  Solve problems involving simple composite beams. It is assumed that students doing this tutorial already understand the basic principles of moments, shear force, stress and moments of area. Students must also be able to perform basic differentiation and calculus from their maths studies. © D.J.DUNN freestudy.co.uk 1 1 TYPES OF BEAMS A beam is a structure, which is loaded transversely (sideways). The loads may be point loads or uniformly distributed loads (udl). The diagrams show the way that point loads and uniform loads are illustrated. A point load is a load or force that acts at a single point on a structure and it is depicted by a single arrow on diagrams . Figures 1a and b A uniform load is one which is evenly distributed along a length such as the weight of the beam or a wall built on top of a beam. It is depicted by a series of arrows as shown. We usually denote the loading as w N/m. Figures 1c and d The beam may be simply supported or built in.