Welcome to IndeterminateBeam’s documentation!

IndeterminateBeam is a Python Package aiming to serve as a foundation for civil and structural engineering projects in Python. The module can also serve as a standalone program and is useful for determining:

• reaction forces for indeterminate beams

• internal forces for indeterminate beams (shear, bending, axial)

• deflection of the beam due to resulting forces

• axial force, shear force, and bending moment diagrams

The indeterminatebeam package repository can be found on Github and is ready for installation using pip.

Getting Started

• First steps

Theory

• Theory
  • Indeterminate vs Determinate structures
  • Indeterminate Calculation Theory
  • Spring Supports
  • Sign Convention
  • Unit Convention

Examples

• 1. Introduction to Examples
• 2. Basic Usage (Readme example)
  • 2.1 Basic Usage
  • 2.2 Querying Data
  • 2.3 Specifing units
  • 2.4 Exporting Results
• 3. Support class breakdown
  • Representation
  • Code
• 4. Load classes breakdown
  • 4.1 Point Torque
  • 4.2 Point Load
  • 4.3 Uniformly Distributed Load (UDL)
  • 4.4 Trapezoidal Load
  • 4.5 Distributed Load
  • 4.6 Vertical and Horizontal load child classes
• 5. Statically Determinate Beam
  • Specifications
  • Results
  • Code
• 6. Statically Indeterminate Beam
  • Specifications
  • Results
  • Code
• 7. Spring Supported Beam
  • Specifications
  • Results
  • Code
• 8. Axially Loaded Indeterminate Beam
  • Specifications
  • Results
  • Code
• 9. Timoshenko Beam Theory
  • Specifications
  • Results
  • Code

User documentation

• IndeterminateBeam Reference
  • Support
  • Beam
  • PointLoads
  • DistributedLoads

References

• References
  • Bibliography