Question:
How do you find the total load on a beam?
beery
2008-09-18 00:37:18 UTC
How exactly do you find the total loading on a rigid beam subject to two distributed forces or one distributed force and several point forces?
Three answers:
veejay
2008-09-18 01:12:38 UTC
Point forces can be just summed up...there are two distributed loads....uniformly distributed ,

not uniformly distribute-this again divides into gradually varying ,abrubtly varying....there are set formulas for each of the distributed loads to find resultant load...



Find RESULTANT load of the distributed loads and add them with the point loads ...yu r done...problem solved....n Sorry i don remember the formulas for distributed loads.
Noushad Bin Jamal
2008-09-18 07:58:47 UTC
Total load over a beam? or you need to know support reactions?



total load is calculated by summing up all the loads like point loads, uniformly distributed loads, uniformly varying loads, and dead load (density-25kN/m3 * c/s area * length). wind loads, torsional loads etc,



for calculating end reactions, which ,means, support reactions, you have to look at it stability conditions.for this,



you should know the end conditions,

equilibrium conditions are formed as equations based on these end conditions and assuming that the material of the beam is homogeneous over the entire span, you can calculate the loads.



for the calculation of statically indeterminate structures, you will have to follow Finite element Analysis, like stiffness matrix method or flexibility matrix method.
Quakmors
2008-09-18 08:21:07 UTC
N1 x m1 + N2 x m2 / m total = N total

N = Newton, m = meter, sorry I don't know English abbrivations for this formula


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