Lecture No.

11
Date: 07 07 2014

ME 211 Summer 2014
Beam Deflection
Beam Deflection
This chapter is a very example intensive
chapter. So Instead of just repeating the
examples in this lecture, I will provide you
with some extra lectures that add more
descriptions, as well as some that include
more examples.
Lecture No.11:
Beam Deflection
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Beam Deflection
As with last week, the NTHU, lecture on
this offers some very nice graphics to go
along with the descriptions:
o http://ocw.nthu.edu.tw/ocw/upload/8/258/C
hapter_9-98.pdf
Here is another version from the ME
department in Berkeley:
o http://www.me.berkeley.edu/~lwlin/me128/B
eamDeflection.pdf
Lecture No.11:
Beam Deflection
ME 211 Summer 2014 Gieskes, K. 3
Beam Deflection
Through the principle of Superposition you
can solve a mixed loading case, by simply
superimposing simple loading cases together.
The deflection equations for these simple
cases are then added together to find the
total deflection:
To aid with this, there are many pages
dedicated to these simple cases:
o http://www.engineersedge.com/beam_calc_men
u.shtml
o http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/Courses/ME4730/Ra
nd4770Vibrations/BeamFormulas.pdf
Lecture No.11:
Beam Deflection
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HAVE A NICE DAY
Lecture No.11:
Beam Deflection
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