Example

Solve the beam shown in the figure below

which is fixed at (A) and simply supported at (B). It is
loaded by a downward uniform distributed force of
magnitude wo acting over the right half of the beam.
 Beam finite elements are obtained by
subdividing beam members longitudinally. The
simplest beam element has two end nodes (i & j), four
node displacements grouped in vector u e , and four
node forces grouped in vector fe.
The stiffness matrix will be as bellow:
 The beam stiffness matrix for elements (1) and
(2) including all six degrees of freedom will be as
bellow:
Assemble the matrices will gives:
 Applying the uniform distributed load over element
(2) is converted to the two node forces ( )
on nodes (2) and (3), and applying the known forces
and displacements gives:
 Reducing the matrix form by removing 1,2 and 5
rows and columns:
Home work: