Description

The beam specimens are made from either aluminium or stainless steel and are 20mm wide with either a thickness of 3 or 5mm.

The supports can be used in a fixed configuration where a clamping plate is used to hold the beam in place, simulating a fixed support.

By removing the clamping plate, the support can be used to simulate a simple support.

Loads can be applied to the beam through either two point load hangers or a uniformly distributed load (UDL) sleeve in combination with the two 500g slotted weight hangers. The point load hangers can be moved along the length of the beam allowing many different loading conditions to be explored.

The slotted weights supplied with the weight hangers can be used inside the UDL sleeve to simulate a UDL load applied to the beam.

The UDL sleeve has a central access point allowing the beam deflection to be accurately measured.

Features & Benefits

• Wide variety of beam conditions including simply supported, cantilever, propped cantilever and Encastre

• Point loads and uniformly distributed loads

• Supplied with Armfield structures software as standard

Experimental Content

• Measurement of beam deflection for point and uniformly distributed loads

• Measurement of slope and beam end rotations

• Differential equation for beam bending

• Calculating the young modulus of various beam material

• Cantilever, propped cantilever, Encastre beam and simply supported beam