Deflections of Beams

Structural Analysis: Deflections of Beams

Becoming a Civil Engineer is the dream of every person. But believe me or not, practice is a thing that makes you a perfect engineer.

This course is designed to determine the deflection of beams. As you know, beam is an integral part of any building, we must be able to understand how the beam deflects and how much it deflects.

The course covers determination of deflections (i.e. Slopes and Displacements) of determinate beams by using three methods.

Those three methods are:

1. Double Integration method

    In this method, we start from one equation i.e. double derivative times bending stiffness is equal to moment function. then we double integrate it to find slope and displacement.

2. Moment Area method

    This is a relative method in which we find the slope and displacement at a point with respect to another point and not from the datum unless the other point has zero slope and zero displacement.

3. Conjugate Beam method

    The method in which we replace the real beam with an arbitrary / conjugate beam having certain properties in order to correspond shear and moment in conjugate beam with slope and displacement in real beam.

By completing this course, you will be equipped with three methods of finding deflections of beams. I recommend you, learn all the above three methods to be a perfect engineer.

Deflections of indeterminate beams can also be found by this course in case if you know all reactions of indeterminate beams.

Regards,

Engr. Muhammad Shafique