Analyzing forces and moments in a loaded beam

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Analyzing forces and moments in a loaded beam

• Jeff Guipe
• Umme Zainab Akbari
• Crystal Pérez

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Introduction

• When designing a building, many different forces
  have to be taken into account. These forces
  include reaction forces, shear forces, and
  bending moments. For a structure to be sound, it
  is essential that all forces are calculated
  correctly.

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Background/Theory

• What we will need
• equations
• ? Fx 0
• ? Fy 0
• ? M 0
• What we will use
• Engineering Mechanics - Statics
• Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0