5003 Lectures - Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

E5003 - Ship Structures I 75
© C.G. Daley
Beam Example 1: Cantilever beam with left end
free
The cantilever beam is sketched at the left. The
left end is free and the right end is fixed. The
shear force is found by integrating the load. In this
case the initial shear is zero, because there is no
reaction at the left had end (it's a free end) ;