List of Steel Beam Posts- Part 4.

Last Updated on September 15, 2026 by Maged kamel

List of Steel Beam Posts- Part 4.

Moment Redistribution For Continuous Steel Beams.

This is the 29th Post of Steel Beam Posts, Part 4, and it includes a brief discussion of statically indeterminate beams, where we will have both positive and negative moments and the methods we will use. We will review Table 3-23 for continuous Beam Shear and Moment values, Moment redistribution, elastic redistribution, and 0.90 of the largest negative Moment.

This is a Link to Post 29- Moment Redistribution.

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Introduction to design of continuous Beam, problem 4-15.

This is the 30th Post in the steel Beam series (part 4) and includes a solved problem from Prof. Alan Williams’s book. Solved problem 4-15: Moment Redistribution. Fig. 4 .16 shows the uniformly distributed loading, including the Beam self-weight, on a two-span continuous Beam. The Beam has continuous lateral support.

Determine the lightest adequate W10 section using steel with a yield stress of 50 ksi.

This is the Link for Post 30: Introduction to design of continuous Beam, problem 4-15.

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Collapse Load for a Supported Beam.

This is the 31st Post of Steel Beam Posts-part-4, which includes a solved problem on determining the plastic Moment and collapse Load for a Beam fixed at one end and supported on rollers at the other. A concentrated Load loads the Beam.

This is a Link to Post 31: Collapse Load for a supported Beam.

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Easy illustration of the collapse Load for an indeterminate Beam.

This is the 32nd Post in the Steel Beam Posts-part-4 series, which includes a solved problem: how to determine the plastic Moment and collapse Load for a Beam fixed at one end and supported on rollers at the other, loaded by a concentrated Load.

This is the Link for Post 32: the Collapse Load for the indeterminate Beam. 

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Upper bound and lower bound definitions.

Here are two posts,33 and 33a. These two posts are part of Steel Beam Posts-part-4, which includes the definitions of the lower bound & upper bound and the uniqueness theorem. How to determine the relationship between the Load factor and the distance from the support for the same solved problem included in the previous Post.

This is the Link for Post 33: the Upper and lower bound definitions.

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This is the Link for Post 33a: Location of plastic hinges and effect on lambda Value.

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Plastic Moment for Continuous Beams.

This is the 34th Post of Steel Beam Posts-part-4, which includes determining the plastic Moment and the collapse UL Load for a continuous Beam with equal spans. Two methods are used: the static (lower-bound) method and the mechanism (upper-bound) method.

This is the Link for Post 34: Plastic Moment For Continuous Beams.

For posts 35 to 37, a Mastan2 solution is included to verify our estimations.

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Solved Problem 8-22 For Plastic Moment.

This is the 35th Post in Steel Beam Posts-part-4, which includes a solved problem: How do you determine the collapse Load for a Beam fixed at both ends and loaded by a concentrated Load? Two methods are used: the first is the static (lower-bound) method, and the second is the mechanism (upper-bound) method.

This is the Link for Post 35: Solved Problem 8-22 for Plastic Moment part (1/2).

This is a link to Post 35a. Solved Problem 8-22 for plastic nominal Load (2/2).

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Solved problem 8-32 for the plastic Nominal Uniform Load.

This is the 36th Post of Steel Beam Posts-part-4, which includes a solved problem: How can the collapse Uniform Load Value for a given section of a simple Beam partially loaded and fixed at both ends be determined?

The problem was further modified: the Uniform Load was relocated, and the two methods were used again to estimate the plastic nominal Uniform Load. This is the Link for Post 36: Solved problems 8-32. This is a Link to Post 36a.

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Solved problems 8-33 and 34 for the nominal Uniform Load.

There are two posts: 37 and 37A. These two posts are part of Steel Beam Posts, Part 4, which includes solved problems 8.33 and 8.34.

. Using the given section and Plastilem 8.33, determine the Value of Wn as indicated for a continuous Beam with varying loading.

For the second problem, #8.34, determine the Value of Wn as indicated for a continuous Beam fixed at both ends under Wn loads.

This is the Link for Post 37: A solved problem, 8-33, for a nominal Uniform Load.

This is a Link to Post 37a: solved problem 8- 34, for a nominal Uniform Load.

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A very useful external resource: A Beginner’s Guide to the Steel Construction Manual, 15^th ed., Chapter8 – Bending Members

. A very useful external resource: A Beginner’s Guide to the Steel Construction Manual, 16^th ed., Chapter 8 – Bending Members