Understanding Distributed Forces in Engineering
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The bodies are subjected to the action of distributed loads, which can be caused
by the wind, by fluids, by the weight of the material that is on the body, by the weight
own of the body, etc.
Then the distributed forces will be those that act on an area of the body or of the
structure. For example, the self-weight of a beam.
Types
Line forces
In engineering, the load exerted on a beam that supports the floor of a building is
distributed along the length of the beam. In many engineering applications, the loads
they are distributed continuously along the line.
The load exerted by the wind on a telecommunications tower is distributed to the
length of the height of the tower.
Beam
The image describes the example of a uniformly distributed load applied.
on the floor over a beam of the building structure.
Load delete
wind
distributed to
along the
height of a
tower.
Resultant of the distributed line forces.
. A system of distributed forces per unit length can be conceived as
a system of parallel forces, each acting (dF) on a
differential length element (dX). As we well know, a system of
forces can be replaced by a single force. This force is
represented in the system (3). We are now presented with the problem of determining
the characteristics of that unique force (magnitude and point of passage of its line of
action).
System 1 System 2 System 3
Let the force (dF) belong to system 1.
Where W is the function that represents the
form of distribution of the distributed forces
and is given in N/m.
We can also integrate to determine the moment about a point exerted by
the distributed load. For example, the moment about the origin due to the force
exerted on the element dXesxwdx,y and the total moment with respect to the origin due to
the distributed load is:
Cuando sólo nos interesan la fuerza total y el momento total ejercidos por una carga
distributed, it can be represented by a single equivalent force F. For it to be
equivalent, the force must act in a position ̅ about the X axis such that the moment
The moment of F with respect to the origin should be equal to the moment of the distributed load with respect to the origin.
Now to find the location on the X axis, the following procedure will be followed: