Shear force & bending moment diagram - Solved Examples

Name: Shear force & bending moment diagram - Solved Examples
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For Mechanical,Civil and Structural Engineering students and working professionals !

Created byRajan Gosavi (Gold Medalist , M.Tech. )

Last updated 1/2026

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What you'll learn

How to draw shear diagram or shear force diagram easily
How to draw bending moment diagram
How to calculate point of ZERO shear & contraflexure
Important problems on other topics like bending stresses , slope & deflection of beams, Torsion is also included .

Course content

11 sections • 58 lectures • 8h 54m total length

Introduction to the course4:55
Explore the fundamentals of drawing shear force and bending moment diagrams through solved examples, including simply supported beams, cantilevers, overhangs, and various loading conditions.
How to convert u.d.l. into a point load3:25
SFD & BMD - Simply supported beam with point loads7:22
Compute reactions and develop the sfd and bmd for a simply supported beam with a point load and a uniformly distributed load converted to a point load.
SFD & BMD - Simply supported beam carrying moment and point load5:54
SFD & BMD for Cantilever beam5:53

Introduction to Method of section for Simply supported beam - 114:01
Method of section for Simply supported beam - 217:26
Method of section for Simply supported beam - 310:00
Apply the method of section to draw shear force and bending moment diagrams for a simply supported eight-meter beam under a 5 kN/m uniform load, with reactions and center-load conversion.
Cantilever beam - Method of section3:52

SFD & BMD - Overhang on both sides14:39
SFD & BMD - U.D.L. , U.V.L. and point load15:37
SFD & BMD - SPPU14:24
SFD & BMD - GATE Preparation7:54
SFD & BMD - Point of contra flexure10:32
How to find maximum bending moment and maximum bending stress - 16:54
How to find maximum bending moment and maximum bending stress -27:27
How to find maximum bending moment and maximum bending stress - 38:32
How to find maximum bending moment and maximum bending stress - 419:24

L24 How to draw S.F.D.& B.M.D.(Cantilever beam)6:07
How to draw S.F.D.& B.M.D. for Cantilever beam.
L9 How to draw S.F.D. & B.M.D. - Cantilever beam carrying point loads & end mom4:31
How to draw S.F.D. & B.M.D. - Cantilever beam carrying point loads & end moment .
SFD & BMD - Cantilever beam carrying u.d.l.4:04
SFD & BMD - Cantilever beam carrying u.v.l. (1)8:33
SFD & BMD - Cantilever beam carrying u.v.l. (2)4:01

How to draw shear force & bending moment diagram14:03
SFD & BMD - U.D.L. from supports11:13
SFD & BMD - U.D.L. & Overhang12:45
Convert a uniformly distributed load on a simply supported beam with a right overhang into a resultant, compute the reactions, and derive the SFD and BMD.
SFD & BMD - Point of ZERO shear and Point of Contraflexure10:42
SFD & BMD - Overhang on both sides , u.d.l. and point load11:09

Flexural formula8:10
Derive the bending stress, or flexural formula, for a simply supported beam, showing how stress varies with distance from the neutral axis and relates to moment of inertia.
Bending stress examples - 18:25
Bending stress examples - 28:25
Bending stress examples - 411:15
Bending stress important examples 17:38
Apply the flexural formula to a simply supported four-meter beam with a rectangular section and two 50 mm holes, to determine the uniformly distributed load for 50 MPa bending stress.
Bending stress important examples 25:23
Bending stress important examples 35:49
Bending stress important examples 46:36
Compute the maximum UDL a four-meter simply supported beam can carry under a 25 MPa bending stress, by analyzing triangular cutouts, centroids, areas, and inertia.
Bending stress important examples 56:13

Requirements

Basics of types of beam,support reactions & equilibrium concept

Description

Very useful course to clear the concept of how to draw shear diagram & bending moment diagram, how to find point of zero shear and point of contraflexure.

The course is designed in such a way that it will be very easy to understand the concept as animations are used wherever necessary !

The course will teach you how to draw shear force diagram & bending moment diagram for simply supported beams with point loads, uniformly distributed loads , combination of point load & u.d.l. , Overhanging beam & cantilever beam.

For structural design, it is very important to calculate the beam reactions , shear force & maximum bending moment at a section.

It will cover the following :

Sfd bmd questions
Shear force diagram
Bending moment diagram
cantilever Bending & shear diagram

Maximum bending moment & shear force

Sfd & bmd for cantilever beam with point load

Trapezoidal load shear and moment diagram
Uniformly varying load sfd and bmd
Trapezoidal load shear and moment diagram
Shear force triangular distributed load
Mos shear force and bending moment
Sfd and bmd tricks
Understanding shear and moment diagrams
Sfd and bmd for standard cases
Bending moment diagram distributed load
How to calculate point of zero shear & point of contraflexure
Excel calculators for SFD & BMD & more ...

Who this course is for:

This course is for Mechanical , Civil and structural Engineering students & professionals.

Shear force & bending moment diagram - Solved Examples

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction5 lectures • 27min

Bending Moment Diagram from Shear Force Diagram2 lectures • 28min

Method of section - Introduction4 lectures • 45min

Simply supported beam9 lectures • 1hr 45min

Cantilever beam5 lectures • 27min

Important examples on SFD & BMD5 lectures • 1hr

Units explained3 lectures • 18min

Propped cantilever beam3 lectures • 26min

Slope & Deflection6 lectures • 1hr 28min

Bending stresses in beams9 lectures • 1hr 8min

Requirements

Description

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