Resource for Shear/Moment Diagrams

Structengineer11 said:

Just wondering if anyone knew of a good resource for shear/moment diagrams, outside of the ones listed in Table 3-23 of AISC. I know the basics of shear/moment diagrams; plus I know I can easily look them up in the tables of AISC, but does anyone know of a more exhaustive list that is available, i.e. something that would be supplemental to the AISC tables, just in case there is one on the exam that you can't find in AISC. After just taking the NCEES afternoon practice exam, there were some on there that were a little tricky and couldn't be found in AISC (e.g., three point loads on a three-span continuous beam with a hinge on it).

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Structengineer11 said:

Thanks for the feedback. The ones in the back of the CERM are good, but every one of those are also in AISC. And yes, I stumbled upon those NDS ones, and I think that will be my back-up resource to look at in case I can't find the appropriate one in AISC because it appears NDS does have a couple of scenarios that aren't covered in the AISC manual. Yeah the problem was #510; I had a general sense of the moment diagram for that case, without the hinge, when I first looked at it, but the hinge was what was throwing me off. I initially thought of it not having any moment, and could've sworn that was the case, but then I was looking at some moment influence diagrams with hinges and that's what caused me to pick an answer that didn't have zero moment at the hinge. I've thought deeper about that since then, and now have a better understanding of influence diagrams (i.e., those lines don't correspond to moment diagrams), so hopefully I won't let something like that fool me on the actual exam.

I also am aware of superposition and the multi-span/continuous beam cases presented in AISC. Correct, most of those can actually be obtained from AISC.

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DrZoidberWoop said:

Shear+moment diagrams for complex/heavily-variable situations most likely won't be published in industry documents. You should have a structural analysis textbook that can help you with this. Here is a link to a compilation of simple V+M diagrams that I find visually appealing and easy to understand, but then-again you'll see these in most textbooks.

 http://www.awc.org/pdf/codes-standards/publications/design-aids/AWC-DA6-BeamFormulas-0710.pdf

Short answer is that you need to be able to solve "6-minute" V+M problems in a timely manner, either within the 6 minute window or with time you've made up by completing other problems quicker. 

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