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  3. Why is there a discrepancy between the sign convention for beam shear force plots and those given in standard literature? The moment diagram appears to be consistent, but not the shear diagram.

Why is there a discrepancy between the sign convention for beam shear force plots and those given in standard literature? The moment diagram appears to be consistent, but not the shear diagram.

Tagged: 2022 R1, beams-and-shells, General, mechanical-apdl, modeling-and-meshing, structural-mechanics
    • March 17, 2023 at 9:00 am
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      The shear forces are output in the element coordinate systems. They need to be interpreted with respect to the the element systems.

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