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These tutorials cover a range of material that, depending on where you go to school, might show up in either mechanics of materials 2 or structural analysis courses. Here at engineer4free, I've decided to go ahead and call it "structural analysis." A solid understanding of mechanics of materials is necessary to understand the topics presented here.

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the subject, you should start at the top and work your way down the list. That way you will start learning the most basic concepts first and build off of those as you progress through the course.
Structural Analysis

Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagram Review

1. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #1
2. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #2
3. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #3
4. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #4
5. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #5
6. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #6
7. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #7
8. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #8
9. Shear force and bending moment diagram practice problem #9
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9.1. Shear force and bending moment diagram software

Double Integration Method

These double integration method tutorials also show up in the mechanics of materials playlist in the "beam deflection" section.

10. Introduction to beam deflection and the elastic curve equation
11. Find deflection and slope of a cantilever beam with a point load
12. Find deflection of a simply supported beam with distributed load
13. Find deflection and slope of a simply supported beam with a point load
​14. Statically indeterminate beam deflection and slope example
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Method of Superposition

15. Method of superposition for beam slope and deflection explained
16. Method of superposition example #1: a simply supported beam
17. Method of superposition example #2: a cantilever beam
18. Method of superposition example #3: with an applied moment

Moment Area Method

19. Moment area method explained
20. Moment area method example #1: cantilever beam with one load
21. Moment area method example #2: cantilever beam with two loads
22. Moment area method example #3: simply supported beam with two loads
23. Moment area method example #4: non-constant EI (flexural rigidity)

24. Moment area method by parts explained
25. Moment area method by parts example #1: cantilever beam with two loads
26. Moment area method by parts example #2: simply supported beam, two loads
27. Non-symmetrical moment area method example: overhanging beam
28. Find location & magnitude of max deflection: simply supported beam with point load at 1/4 span using moment area method


Slope Deflection Method

29. Slope deflection method explained
30. Slope deflection method example #1 (part 1/3)
31. Slope deflection method example #1 (part 2/3)
32. Slope deflection method example #1 (part 3/3)

33. Slope deflection method example #2 (part 1/3)
34. Slope deflection method example #2 (part 2/3)

35. Slope deflection method example #2 (part 3/3)
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3 Moment Equation

36. Three moment equation explained
37. Three moment equation example #1 (part 1/3)
38. Three moment equation example #1 (part 2/3)
39. Three moment equation example #1 (part 3/3) - alternate method

40. Three moment equation example #2: three span beam (part 1/3)
41. Three moment equation example #2: three span beam (part (2/3)
42. Three moment equation example #2: three span beam (part (3/3)
43. Three moment equation example #3: with a rigid connection (part 1/2)

44. Three moment equation example #3: with a rigid connection (part (2/2)

Force Method

45. Force method explained
46. Force method example #1: one degree indeterminate
47. Force method example #2: two degrees indeterminate (part 1/3)
48. Force method example #2: two degrees indeterminate (part 2/3)
49. Force method example #2: two degrees indeterminate (part 3/3)
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