Bending of Beams and Plates
This modules in this section will develop relations between stresses,
deflections, and applied loads for beams and flat plates subjected to
bending loads. This will be done using the direct method employed in
Module 7 for circular shafts in torsion. However, bending problems
have a higher order of dimensionality than twisted shafts, and it will
be convenient to use the more general formulations developed in
Modules 8 - 11. In particular, pseudovector-matrix notation will allow
easy extension of beam concepts to flat plates.