So naturally they’re the starting point in any design process.Īnother reason every graduating engineer needs to have a solid grasp of shear forces and bending moments is because they’re absolutely going to be tested in almost every graduate interview. Shear force and bending moment diagrams tell us about the underlying state of stress in the structure.
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