Conjugate Beam Method

Introduction Development
The conjugate beam method was The next figure suggests that, if we
developed by H. Müller-Breslau in 1865. could somehow treat the curvature
diagram as if it was a loading diagram,
The conjugate beam method is an
then we could determine slope and
engineering method to derive the slope
deflection using graphical integration,
and displacement of a beam.
the same method that we currently can
The conjugate beam method provides use to find the shears and moments.
a different way to find slopes This could potentially be an easy way
(rotations) and deflections of to find the slopes and deflections
determinate beams.
It takes advantage of the similar set of
relationships that exist between
load(w)-shear(V)-moment(M)-
slope(θ)-displacement(v).

We can state two theorems Conclusion

related to the conjugate beam
Essentially, it requires the same
The slope at a point in the real beam is numerically amount of computation as the
equal to the shear at the corresponding point in the
moment-area theorems to determine
conjugate beam.
a beam's slope or deflection; however,
The displacement of a point in the real beam is
this method relies only on the
numerically equal to the moment at the
corresponding point in the conjugate beam principles of statics, so its application
will be more familiar
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