34. Building the shear force diagram

Direct Stiffness Method - Beam and Frame Analysis
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Hi Sean,

Thanks for the great lesson.

I was thinking about how to extract point of contraflexure along both BMD and SFD of the members.

Also, how to implement a widget to read Axial force, Moment, and Shear interpolated along the members.

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Yeah those would be nice additions. Should be pretty straightforward since you know the values at each end of the member and the nature of the loading on the member. Post some results here if you do implement this!
Seán