Engineering of Structures: Shear and Bending

This course deals with shear and bending. Shear is a set of parallel, non-collinear forces acting across an element and bending is the curved form taken by a slender element when subjected to loads perpendicular to the element. These forces are easy to understand. You will study how stress and bending force acts for different structures and also, identify what role these forces play in their designs. The first module introduces you to the concept of shear and bending while building structures. T

• Identify the definitions of the key glossary terms related to shear and bending
• Define beams
• Identify different types of beams
• Define shear and tension forces