[civil and structural Engineering]
The following three methods to construct equilibrium shear force and bending moment diagrams for beams are described
•the method of sections
•the differential equation method, and
•the semi-graphical approach.
In actual practice the distinction between these methods becomes blurred, because they may be used simul-taneously by the analyst. In the last section of this chapter the buoyancy force distribution on ships is described so that the longitudinal bending response can be computed.
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