Moving Loads

A truck or other vehicle rolling across a beam or a girder

is a good example of moving loads.
➢ Consist of concentrated load at fixed distances from one
another
➢ Maximum bending moment happens under each con-
centrated load when they are at a certain position to
cause a maximum bending moment.
➢ The largest of these maximum moment under each load
will govern in the design.
The Rule
- The bending moment under a particular load is a
maximum when the center of the beam is midway
between that load and the resultant of all loads
then on the span.

The maximum shearing force occurs at, and is equal to,

the maximum reaction.
The maximum reaction for a group of moving loads on
a span occurs either at the left reaction, when the leftmost
load is over that reaction, or at the right reaction, when the
rightmost load is over it.
In other words, the maximum reaction is the reaction to
which the resultant load is nearer.
Example: