Understanding Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams
Normal internal forces are either tensile or compressive. These forces cancel each other out so they don't produce a net force perpendicular to the beam crosssection, but they do produce a moment.. This means that the internal forces acting on the crosssection of the beam can be represented by one resultant force, called a shear force, that is the resultant of the internal shear forces ...