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ME 311 - Machine Elements I - 2023-2024 – Fall Semester

Homework 1
Instructor: Özgür Günelsu
Teaching Assistants: Mehmet Yalçın Sırmalılar, Alican Alpkaya
Due Date/Time: 11 December 2023 / 13:30 (upload to TEAMS and deliver the hardcopy in class)

A beam is simply supported at two ends and under the action of two point loads, FB and FC, as shown in the figure
below. Weight of the beam can be neglected. Weights of the beam and ropes can be neglected.

Using Table A-9 and superposition, deflection at B can be found as:

a3  7 
yB   4 FB  2 FC 
9 EI

a) Show that the same expression can be found by using

Castigliano’s Method, if the effect of transverse shear is
neglected.

b) What will be the direction of the deflection? Up or down?

Explain.

Use the force and moment notations and coordinate axes

shown in the figures on the right.

Hint: Note that support reactions are functions of external

RD
forces and  0 . Therefore, RD must be written in terms
FB
of FB and FC, at the beginning of the method.