5003 Lectures - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

E5003 - Ship Structures I 159
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Because there was no load along the member, the
maximum stresses in the above case occurred at
the ends of the beam.
Q2: How are loads along a beam dealt with?
A2: Loads that are act between dofs are dealt
with in three steps. In step 1, the fixed end forces
and stresses that the loads cause are found. In
step 2, the fixed end actions are placed on a full
structural model and solved. All responses,
including deflection, stresses, strains, for the full
structure (including the beam where the loads
acted) can be found for the whole structure.
The complete solution comes from adding the two
solutions (step1 + step2):