Assignment No 0

SF and BM Diagrams, Centroid and Moment of Inertia

Bending stresses, Shear stresses and Deflection
Due Date : 26/09/2014
1. For the beam loaded as shown in figure 1a, Plot the SF and BM diagram and find the
maximum bending stress and maximum shear stress if the cross section of the beam is as
shown in figure 1b. Take E = 200 GPa.

Figure 1a

Figure 1b

2. Draw the SF and BM diagrams for the horizontal plane and vertical plane for the beam shown
in figure 2.

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2
kN

Figure 2

3. Locate the centroid and find the moment of inertia about the centroidal axes xx and yy
for the cross section shown in Figure 3

Figure 3

4. For the beams with loading as shown in figure 4 and figure 5, determine the maximum
deflection and maximum slope with EI = 93750 N-m2. (Use double integration method)

Figure 4

Figure 5