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This BTEC assignment brief outlines the requirements for Unit 27, focusing on the exploration of shear forces and bending moments in simply supported and cantilever beams. Students are tasked with conducting experiments, creating mathematical models, and producing reports that compare theoretical and experimental results. The assignment emphasizes the importance of safety, accuracy, and analytical skills in engineering practices.

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u27 Lab - Edited

This BTEC assignment brief outlines the requirements for Unit 27, focusing on the exploration of shear forces and bending moments in simply supported and cantilever beams. Students are tasked with conducting experiments, creating mathematical models, and producing reports that compare theoretical and experimental results. The assignment emphasizes the importance of safety, accuracy, and analytical skills in engineering practices.

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BTEC Assignment Brief

Pearson BTEC International Level 3 Diploma in Engineering


Qualification

Unit number and title Unit 27: Static Mechanical Principles in Practice

B: Explore safely the shear forces and bending moments in


Learning aim(s) simply supported and cantilever beams

Shear force and bending moments


Assignment title

Eng. Shatha E. Taha


Assessor

Issue date
6-4-2025

Hand in deadline
20-4-2025

You are a second year technical apprentice in a large


manufacturing company producing structural members that
are to be used in a new construction project.
Vocational Scenario or Your supervisor has asked you carry out some experiments
Context to find out how beams react to different types of loading,
and then perform a number of calculations to confirm the
findings of the experiments. The experiments and
calculations relate to shear and bending in beams.

You need to produce a report that demonstrates analytical


and practical skills and use these to explain the effects of
loads on simply supported and cantilever beams, suggesting
improvements to the structures.

To do this:
Your tutor will provide you with diagrams of two simply
supported beams and a cantilever beam, each of which will
have at least three point loads.

Task 1

Figure 1: simply supported beam with three-point loads

Figure 2: cantilever beam with three-point loads


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BTEC International Level 3 Authorised Assignment Brief Unit 27 Learning Aim B – Issue 1 January 2020
You need to:
 Create a mathematical model of the shear force and
bending moments for each beam arrangement. For
each you need to present your findings as annotated
shear force and bending moment diagrams.
 Use your diagrams to identify significant data,
including maximum and minimum values, and points
of contraflexure
 Safely set up apparatus for each beam arrangement
using simple and complex loading. Once set up, you
need to gather experimental results for each beam.

You then need to:


Your tutor will provide diagrams of two further simply
supported beams and a further cantilever beam. These
beams each have at least two point loads and one uniformly
distributed load.

Figure 3: simply supported beam with complex loads

Figure 4: cantilever beam with complex loads


The values of Q,q,l,P1,P2,and P3 will be provided as soon as the
tests are arranged
You should use the diagrams to:
 Create a mathematical model of the shear force and
bending moments for each beam arrangement. For
each you need to present your findings as annotated
shear force and bending moment diagrams.
 Use your diagrams to identify significant data,
including maximum and minimum values, and points
of contraflexure.
 Safely set up apparatus for each beam arrangement
using simple and complex loading. Once set up, you
need to gather experimental results for each beam.

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BTEC International Level 3 Authorised Assignment Brief Unit 27 Learning Aim B – Issue 1 January 2020
Once you have completed all of your experiments you need
to produce a short report in your log book that considers
both the theoretical values and the measured values for each
of the various beam arrangements. In your report you will
need to evaluate (give reasons for) the differences between
the theoretical values and experimental values, including
ways that you could improve (e.g. the experimental
accuracy) the experiments if they were repeated.
Checklist of evidence A portfolio of results gathered by experimentation when
required investigating given beam configurations. Supported by a log
book, images, observation records, graphical and
mathematical modelling (including differential calculus)
Observation records should contain sufficient information
about how you approached the practical tasks, set up the
equipment, took measurements and processed them.

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BTEC International Level 3 Authorised Assignment Brief Unit 27 Learning Aim B – Issue 1 January 2020
Criteria covered by this task:
Unit/Criteria
To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to:
reference
Evaluate the simple and complex loads acting on simply supported and
27/B.D2 cantilever beams, comparing the results from safely conducted
experiments and theoretical calculations, and suggest improvements to
the experimental method used.
Conduct experiments accurately to determine the shear forces and
27/B.M2
bending moments in simply supported and cantilever beams when
subjected to simple and complex loading
Analyse, using experimental results and theoretical calculations, the
27/B.M3
shear forces and bending moments in simply supported and cantilever
beams when subjected to simple and complex loading.
Conduct experiments safely to determine the shear forces and bending
27/B.P3
moments in simply supported and cantilever beams when subjected to
simple loading.
Explain, using experimental results and theoretical calculations, the
27/B.P4
shear forces and bending moments in simply supported and cantilever
beams when subjected to simple loading.
Sources of information
to support you with this Textbooks
Assignment
Andrew Buckenham, Gareth Thomson, Natalie
Griffiths, Steve Singleton, Alan Serplus, Michael Ryan (2016)
BTEC Nationals in Engineering, Pearson, ISBN
9781292141008

Boyce A., Cooke E., Jones R., Mantovani B., Roberts D.,
Weatherill B., (2010) BTEC Level 3 National Engineering
Student Book (Level 3 BTEC National Engineering), Pearson
Educational, ISBN 978 1 84690 754 1

Tooley M. and Dingle L. (2010) BTEC National Engineering,


Elsevier, ISBN 978 0 12 382202 4

Websites

thelearningpoint.net/home/engineering-mechanics/analysis-
of-structures

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