Chapter Four: Internal Loading Developed in Structural Members
Chapter Four: Internal Loading Developed in Structural Members
Note:
positive normal force tends to elongate the segment
positive shear tends to rotate the segment clockwise
positive bending moment tends to bend the segment concave upward
Procedure for Analysis
1. Support Reactions
2. Free-Body Diagram
Keep all distributed loadings, couple moments, and forces acting on
the member in their exact location.
pass an imaginary section through the member, perpendicular to its
axis at the point where the internal loading is to be determined.
After the section is made, draw a free-body diagram of the segment
that has the least number of loads on it.
At the section indicate the unknown resultants N, V, and M acting in
their positive directions.
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4-2 Shear & Moment Functions
The design of a beam requires a detailed knowledge of the variations of
the internal shear force V and moment M acting at each point along the
axis of the beam.
The internal normal force is generally not considered for two reasons:
(1)in most cases the loads applied to a beam act perpendicular to the
beam’s axis and hence produce only an internal shear force and bending
moment
(2)for design purposes the beam’s resistance to shear, and particularly to
bending, is more important than its ability to resist normal force.
Mby
The results can be checked 0
s noting that: dV
dx w
Example
Determine the internal shear and moment
Function
Example
If the variations of V & M are plotted, the graphs are termed the
shear diagram and moment diagram
Consider beam AD in Fig 4.9(a)
Fy 0;
V w(x)x (V V ) 0
V w(x)x
With anti - clockwise moments as ve :
M o 0;
Vx M w(x)x (x) (M M ) 0
M Vx w(x) (x) 2
⚫ Dividing by x & taking the limit as x , the previous eqns become:
Integrating eqn 4.1 & 4.above eqns from one point to another between
concentrated forces or couples in which case
Eqn 4.1 & 4.3 cannot be used at points where a concentrated force
acts
Similarly, eqn 4.2 & 4.4 cannot be used where a couple moment is
applied
In order to account for these 2 cases, consider the free-body
diagrams of differential elements of the beam in Fig 4.10(a)
Fig 4.10
⚫ Draw the shear & moment diagrams for the frame shown in Fig 4.19(
⚫ Assume A is a pin, C a roller & B is a fixed point
⚫ Neglect the thickness of the members
4-5 Moment Diagrams constructed by
the Method of Superposition
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