BeamBending: a teaching aid for 1-D shear force and bending moment diagrams

Abstract

• teachers who want to automatically create problem sets with their solutions (easily scriptable, random-problem-generator friendly); • students who want to verify their solutions to introductory problem sets; • students who like to play with example problems and receive immediate visual feedback (i.e. about how simple modifications to imposed loads affect the resulting reaction forces and internal stresses).