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Chapter 8 Designing for Bending

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  Chapter 8, Pages 223-269 (doi:10.13031/2013.29530) in Chapter 8, pp. 223-269 . Copyright 2010 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Mich.
Authors:   Segerlind, Larry J.
Keywords:   Allowable Normal and Shear Stresses; Noncompact Square and Rectangular Tubes; Compact Square and Rectangular Tubes; Circular Tubes; Solid Round, Square, and Rectangular Bars; Design Assistance; Beam Design: Uniform Depth Sections;Beam Design: Top and Bottom Plates; Beam Design: Tapered Beams; A Tapered Beam with End Moments; Tapered Beam with Zero End Moments; Computer Analysis of Beams; Checking Your Knowledge of the Software

Introductory paragraphs: A beam is a structural member that is designed to resist forces acting perpendicular to its longitudinal axis. The beam transfers the applied loads to remote supports by developing internal shear forces and bending moments. Beams are planar structures because all of the loads act in the plane of the figure and all deflections occur in the same plane.

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