what's the most illustration explanation or reason why a shear can

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what's the most illustration explanation or reason why a shear can pass from positive to negative in say a beam?

256bits

Sign convention dictates in which direction shear is positive or negative, so be consistant when doing an analysis.

The following site illustrates that quite nicely.
http://roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/B...r_Bending.html

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256bits	Sign convention dictates in which direction shear is positive or negative, so be consistant when doing an analysis. The following site illustrates that quite nicely. http://roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/B...r_Bending.html