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Moment?
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Bending Moment
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In this tutorial, we will simply answer

SkyCiv RC  the question: what is a bending

Design moment? A bending moment is a

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force normally measured in a force x
Member length (e.g. kNm). Bending moments
Design
occur when a force is applied at a
SkyCiv Load given distance away from a point of
Generator
reference; causing a bending
bending effect.
 effect. In
SkyCiv  the most simple terms, a bending
Foundation
moment is basically a force that

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Connection object is not well-restrained the
Design
bending force will cause the object to
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Plate Design
also be worth noting you can
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Retaining
Wall 
 calculator to calculate shear and
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bending moment diagrams of a beam.
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What is a
Beam?
This is often a difficult idea to
Types of
Beams comprehend, therefore consider an

Cantilever
example of a plastic ruler
Beam overhanging a desk. If one end of the

What is ruler is lying on the desk and is being

Deflection? held down, and then a force is applied
Beam to the other end of the ruler, it will
Deflection cause the ruler to bend. The ruler will
Formula
experience the greatest bending
Bending
moment at the end where the force is
Moment
applied.
Formula
and
Equations Bending Moment
What is Example
Bending
To calculate the bending
Moment?
moment about a reference point, we
How to
Determine
take the magnitude of the force and
the multiply it by the distance of the
Reactions force from the point. Often this is
at the
calculated across the span of a
Supports?
member, here you can learn how to
Calculating
draw bending moment
Shear
Force diagrams. Note that the force must
Diagrams be perpendicular to the line between
How to the point where the force is applied
Calculate and the reference point. Though that
Bending
sounds confusing, it can be simplified
Moment
Diagrams? in our example:

How to
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Indeterminate
Beam?

Truss Tutorials

What is a
Truss?

Truss In the above example, the bending

Analysis moment at point A is simply the
and
distance multiplied by the force.
Calculation
using
Therefore, the Bending Moment at
Method Point A = 0.2(10) = 2 Nm.
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It is important to note that to use the
Tutorial
to Solve above formula, the force (in this case
Truss by a 10 N downward force) must NOT
Method pass through the point. This is
of
obvious as if we applied the same
Sections
formula (distance x force) the
Types of
distance would equal zero and
Truss
Structures therefore there would be no bending

Pratt moment force.

Truss
Try SkyCiv’s Free Bending Moment
Section
Calculator:
Tutorials

Calculating
BENDING MOMENT
the
C A L C U L AT O R
Centroid
of a Beam
Section

Calculating
the 
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Updated on November 11, 2021
Moment
of Area

Calculating
← Bending Moment Formula and
the
Moment Equations How to
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