Abstract
BeamBending: a teaching aid for 1-D shear force and bending moment diagrams
Highlights
The package documentation includes a simple explanation of the background theory, inspired in Beer, Russell Johnston, Dewolf, & Mazurek (2017) and Bell (2015)
It is assumed that the students understand static equilibrium of flat rigid bodies, but a short recap is provided
Students who want to verify their solutions to introductory problem sets;
Summary
BeamBending is both an educational module and a Python package, based mainly on Hunter (2007), Oliphant (2006) and Meurer et al (2017) It is intended to serve as a teaching aid during a first course in Statics. This module aims to enhance clarity and provide visual hands-on examples while introducing the concepts of:. Code snippets that reproduce the theory examples are presented next to each result
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