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    This document discusses influence lines for statically determinate structures. An influence line represents the variation of a reaction, shear, moment, or deflection at a specific point in a member as a concentrated force moves over the member. There are two procedures for constructing an influence line: (1) placing a unit load at various locations and using statics to determine the function value at the specified point, then plotting the results; and (2) computing the function value as an explicit function of load location x to determine the equations of the line segments. Influence lines are useful for determining the maximum effect of a moving load on a structure.

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    This document discusses influence lines for statically determinate structures. An influence line represents the variation of a reaction, shear, moment, or deflection at a specific point in a member as a concentrated force moves over the member. There are two procedures for constructing an influence line: (1) placing a unit load at various locations and using statics to determine the function value at the specified point, then plotting the results; and (2) computing the function value as an explicit function of load location x to determine the equations of the line segments. Influence lines are useful for determining the maximum effect of a moving load on a structure.

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    This document discusses influence lines for statically determinate structures. An influence line represents the variation of a reaction, shear, moment, or deflection at a specific point in a member as a concentrated force moves over the member. There are two procedures for constructing an influence line: (1) placing a unit load at various locations and using statics to determine the function value at the specified point, then plotting the results; and (2) computing the function value as an explicit function of load location x to determine the equations of the line segments. Influence lines are useful for determining the maximum effect of a moving load on a structure.

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    7 Influence Lines - Students

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    This document discusses influence lines for statically determinate structures. An influence line represents the variation of a reaction, shear, moment, or deflection at a specific point in a member as a concentrated force moves over the member. There are two procedures for constructing an influence line: (1) placing a unit load at various locations and using statics to determine the function value at the specified point, then plotting the results; and (2) computing the function value as an explicit function of load location x to determine the equations of the line segments. Influence lines are useful for determining the maximum effect of a moving load on a structure.

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    Influence Lines for

    Statically Determinate
    Structures

    Influence Lines
    The shear and moment diagrams represent the most
    descriptive methods for displaying the variation of
    these loads in a member. If a structure is subjected to a
    live or moving load, however, the variation of the shear
    and bending moment in the member is best described
    using the influence line. An influence line represents the
    variation of either the reaction, shear, moment, or
    deflection at a specific point in a member as a
    concentrated force moves over the member. Once this
    line is constructed, one can tell at a glance where the
    moving load should be placed on the structure so that it
    creates the greatest influence at the specified point.
    Also, the magnitude of the related reaction, shear,
    moment, or deflection at the point can then be
    calculated from the ordinates of the influence-line
    diagram.
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    Although the procedure for constructing an influence line is


    rather basic, one should clearly be aware of the difference
    between constructing an influence line and constructing a shear
    or moment diagram. Influence lines represent the effect of a
    moving load only at a specified point on a member, whereas
    shear and moment diagrams represent the effect of fixed loads
    at all points along the axis of the member.
    Either of the following two procedures can be used to construct the
    influence line at a specific point P in a member for any function
    (reaction, shear, or moment). For both of these procedures we will
    choose the moving force to have a dimensionless value of unity.
    Tabulate Values
    1. Place a unit load at various locations, x, along the member, and
    at each location use statics to determine the value of the
    function (reaction, shear, or moment) at the specified point.
    2. If the influence line for a vertical force reaction at a point on a
    beam is to be constructed, consider the reaction to be positive
    at the point when it acts upward on the beam.
    3. If a shear or moment influence line is to be drawn for a point,
    take the shear or moment at the point as positive according to
    the same sign convention used for drawing shear and moment
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    diagrams.

    Procedure for Analysis

    4. All statically determinate beams will have influence lines that

    consist of straight line segments.


    5. To avoid errors, it is recommended that one first construct a
    table, listing unit load at x versus the corresponding value of
    the function calculated at the specific point; that is, reaction R,
    shear V, or moment M. Once the load has been placed at
    various points along the span of the member, the tabulated
    values can be plotted and the influence-line segments
    constructed.

    Influence-Line Equations

    The influence line can also be constructed by placing


    the unit load at a variable position x on the member
    and then computing the value of R, V, or M at the point
    as a function of x. In this manner, the equations of the
    various line segments composing the influence line can
    be determined and plotted.
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    10

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    = 1/8

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