What Are the Different Types of Beam Cross-Sections?

[Astronuc]

Beam cross-sections
http://www.efunda.com/math/areas/Common_Cross_Section_Index.cfm

Standard beams
http://www.efunda.com/math/areas/IbeamIndex.cfm

About 10 or so free look ups.

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[Dale]

There are also several nice beam packages for Mathematica (http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/Engineering/Mechanical/). I particularly like the Beam Statics Package. Definitely learn to calculate them by hand before trying one of these packages, but they can be nice shortcuts after you know what you are doing.

-Dale

 

[Astronuc]

EM325: Mechanics of Elastic Bodies

http://em-ntserver.unl.edu/NEGAHBAN/Em325/intro.html