Statics › Section G · Centroids and centers of gravity › Topic G.7
Distributed loads
Snow on a roof, books on a shelf and a floor full of people are loads spread along a length rather than forces at a point. Each can be replaced by one resultant force: its size is the area under the load diagram, and it acts through that area's centroid.
In this topic
- Loads that are spread out
- Load intensity
- The equivalent resultant
- Uniform and triangular loads
- Worked example: a trapezoidal load
- Worked example: reactions of a simple beam
- Worked example: a cantilever
- Loads given by a function
- Using resultants correctly
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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