DiscussionShearing forces are unalligned forces pushing one part of a body in onedirection, and another part the

body in the opposite direction. When the forces arealligned into each other, they are called compression forces. An
example is a deck of cards being pushed one way on the top, and the other at the bottom, causing the cardsto slide.
Another example is when wind blows at the side of a peaked roof of a home -the side walls experience a force at
their top pushing in the direction of the wind, andtheir bottom in the opposite direction, from the ground or
foundation. A plane is passed through a body, a force acting along this plane is called shear force or shearingforce.A
bending moment exists in a structural element when a moment is applied tothe element so that the element bends.
Moments and torques are measured as a forcemultiplied by a distance so they have as unit newton-metres ]