Calculate the axial load carrying capacity of steel and reinforced concrete columns.

Unit 20 Principles of Structural Design - Higher National Certificate/Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment

Assignment - Bending Moments & Shear Forces with Beam Design Considerations

Learning Outcome 1: Calculate bending moments and shear forces for simply supported steel and concrete beams.

Learning Outcome 2: Determine deflection for simply supported steel beams

Learning Outcome 3: Calculate the axial load carrying capacity of steel and reinforced concrete columns

Learning Outcome 4: Explore design methods for steel, reinforced concrete beams and columns

Assignment Brief

TASK 1 TASK 1(A)

(a) A simply supported beam with a span of 14m is subjected to a point load of 150KN at the midpoint. Draw the beam arrangement and determine the reactions at the supports. Calculate and draw the shear force diagram and the bending moment diagram running along the beam.

(b) A beam simply supported has a span of 8m. It carries a 65KN point load at a position 2m from the left support. Draw the beam arrangement and calculate the reactions at both supports. Also determine and draw the shear force and bending momentdiagrams.

(c) A beam simply supported has a length of 25m and carries a uniformly distributed load of 25KN/m. Determine and draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams.

(d) Draw the shear Force and bending moment diagrams if the beam in (a) if a UDL of 20KN/m is additionally supported by the beam.

(e) Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams if the beam in (c) also carries in addition a point load of 50 KN at 10m from the rightsupport.