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Tutorial #1 Review of basic structural analysis
1. Forming your team
You will be assigned into a team of 4 students. Your team members will be attending the same tutorial
session. Your team will work together in the following tasks:
1. The Steel Beam Competition
2. Group design project lowrise steel structure
2. Review of truss analysis
Using method of section, determine forces in members cd Cd
, CD
, BC
, cC
and .
3.Review of beam analysis
Sketch (i) shear force diagram, (ii) bending moment diagram and (iii) deflected shapes for the following
determinate beams. Arrange the sketch vertically so that you will see their relationships.
Important observations :
1. Bending moment is POSITIVE under horizontal line. This is the British sign convention. i.e.
bending moment in tension side. American sign convention is the opposite.
2. Bending moment coexists with shear.
3. Slope of bending moment = shear force
4. Max moment occurs when shear = 0
5. when moment changes sign, it is the “inflection point”. i.e. from concave up to concave down or
vice versa.
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