Mom III Module 2
Mom III Module 2
Mom III Module 2
Beam Bending
Dr. Wayne Whiteman
Senior Academic Professional and Director of the Office of Student Services
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Module 2 Learning Outcomes
Define the qualifications for a structure to be
treated as beam
Give examples of beam bending
Mechanics of Materials
Foundation for all structural and
machine design STRESSES
INTERNAL STRUCTURAL
ENGINEERING EXTERNAL
FORCES AND PERFORMANCE
STRUCTURE LOADS
MOMENTS
Axial STRAINS deformations/deflections
Torsional (Twisting) yield/fracture
Transverse/Flexural/Bending success/failure?
Combined Loading
M M
.
M M
.
exaggerated shape when loaded
F
Real World Engineering Examples:
Cantilever beam
F F
. M
Beam bending/flexure
with shear force
More Real World Engineering Examples:
By Cjp24 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
More Real World Engineering Examples:
Wooden beams