Chapter 7: Deflection of Beams and Shafts

Chapter overview

We’ve looked before at how to calculate deflections in beams and shafts back in Solid Mechanics I and also in energy methods.

In this chapter, we’ll look specifically at indeterminate beams and shafts:

• C7.1 Superposition Method for Statically Indeterminate Beams and Shafts - using superposition to calculate the “net” displacement for indeterminate scenarios