PROCEDURE FOR FINDING MAX. DEF.

USING DIM FOR CONTINUOUS BEAM:

1. WRITE MOMENT EQNS BY APPLYING SUPERPOSITION (SP) OF NON-UNIFORM/DISC. LOADS

(AS SHOWN IN THE FIGURE) TO CONSIDER THE CONTINUITY OF LOAD FR PT A TO C.P. X-X

SP LOAD X SP LOAD

A B C __ __ __ D

X1 X-X1
X-AC
X
X

SPAN MOMENT EQUATION

AB
BC
CD
D…
NOTE: THE LAST SPAN PROVIDES THE GEN MOMENT EQUATION (REFER TO SOM BY SINGER)

2. FROM THE GEN MOMENT EQUATIONS, COMPUTE FOR THE VALUES OF C1 & C2 (REFER TO SOM
BY SINGER)
3. ASSUME ANY SPAN W/C YOU THINK MIGHT GIVE THE MAX DEF
4. SAY: SPAN BC WILL GIVE THE MAX DEF & LIMIT FOR DIST X: AB<X<AC
 5. SOLVE FOR DIST. “X” BASED ON THE MOMENT EQUATION OF SPAN BC AND BY USING THE
VALUES OF C1 & C2 COMPUTED IN STEP 2(REFER TO SOM BY SINGER), THEN APPLY EQN (6-4)
(ABOVE GIVEN SLOPE EQN, WHERE SLOPE (v’)=0, SINCE @ THE PT. OF MAX DEF, SLOPE IS
ZERO). IF DIST “X” SATISFIES THE LIMIT IN STEP 4, THEN GO TO NEXT STEP TO COMPUTE FOR
MAX DEF, ELSE IF NOT, GO BACK TO STEP 3 & ASSUMED AGAIN ANOTHER SPAN WHERE MAX
DEF MAY OCCUR.
6. COMPUTE FOR MAX DEF BASED ON THE GIVEN EQN (6-5)

POINTERS:

1. IF YOU WANT TO USE DIM, THEN APPLY THIS ANALYTICAL STEP IN THE ACTIVITY PROBLEM TO
SOLVE THE MAX DEFLECTION , OR ELSE, YOU CAN ALSO USE OTHER METHOD OF ANALYSIS AS
LONG AS THEY ARE THOUGHT IN THEORY OF STRUCTURES FOR CONTINUOUS BEAM
DEFLECTION & SHOW PROOF COMING FROM A RELIABLE TEXTBOOK W/SAMPLE PROBLEM &
SOLUTIONS.
2. FORMULAS FOR DEFLECTION ARE ONLY APPLICABLE BASED ON THE GIVEN LOAD CONDITION &
SPECIAL TYPE OF SYMMETRICALLY LOADED BEAMS AND IN THE GIVEN PROBLEM, IT DOES NOT
CONFORM TO THIS TYPE OF BEAM, IN WHICH THE GIVEN LOADS ARE NOT SYMMETRICAL
NOR UNIFORMLY APPLIED.