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Derivation For Beam Stiffness Matrix: Step 1: Sign Convention

The document outlines the steps to derive the beam stiffness matrix: 1) It assumes displacement functions and applies boundary conditions to express the simultaneous equations in an augmented matrix form. 2) Beam theory is applied to derive two functions that are substituted into the boundary conditions to obtain a set of equations. 3) The equations are stretched into a matrix form to arrive at the beam stiffness matrix, which is a function of the beam's length, Young's modulus, and second moment of area.

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Derivation For Beam Stiffness Matrix: Step 1: Sign Convention

The document outlines the steps to derive the beam stiffness matrix: 1) It assumes displacement functions and applies boundary conditions to express the simultaneous equations in an augmented matrix form. 2) Beam theory is applied to derive two functions that are substituted into the boundary conditions to obtain a set of equations. 3) The equations are stretched into a matrix form to arrive at the beam stiffness matrix, which is a function of the beam's length, Young's modulus, and second moment of area.

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Derivation for beam stiffness matrix

Step 1 : Sign convention:

Step 2: Assume displacement function

Step 3: Express the simultaneous equations by an augmented


matrix:

|)
L3 L2

(
L 1 v2
3 L2 2 L 1 0 2
0 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 v1

| )
L3 L2

(
L 1 v2
3 3
0 L 2 v
L 2 L 2
0 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 1 v1
As a result,

All together:

Step 4: Applying beam theory

The above two function has been derived in Mechanics of Materials.


Eventually, by substituting the boundary conditions again, we obtain
the following equations:
Step 6: stretch the equations into matrix form

Consequently,

12 6 L 12 6 L
2
EI 6 L 4 L 6 L 2 L
2

[k ] 3
L 12 6 L 12 6 L
2
6 L 2 L2
6 L 4 L

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