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Smrithi R Nath, B.E Civil Engineering, National Institute of Engineering, Mysore (2018)
Answered Jul 17, 2017
Originally Answered: What is shear force in beams?
It's goes to the basic of Newton's third law, which states that, for every action
there'll be equal and opposite reaction.

When certain load is applied to shear a beam, the beam certainly resists the force
upto its maximum strength.

The shear force varies depending on the type of loading, beam span, type of
supports and point of application of loading. The shear force at
every/required points on the span can be calculated to find the maximum shear force
that acts on the beam.

The resisting strength for the applied shear force will be given by
theaggregates, main steel and the concrete. If the resistance offered by the
materials aren't sufficient, shear reinforcement will be provided to strengthen
the beam.

Hope it was helpful :)

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Alan C Reynolds, BSc Honours in Mechanical Mechanical Engineering, Trent

Polytechnic (1978)
Answered Jan 27
Originally Answered: What actually is shear force? I don't understand it.
You have some answers to this - good and accurate. My answer following is simple,
and I hope answers your question. (Forgive me if it is simple but that is the way my
mind works.)

Place an Oreo cookie, or any biscuit sandwich with a cream filling, between the palm
of your hands. Ensuring you have both halves trapped try to slide the cookie apart by
sliding your hands. The force you apply is shear force.

Now eat the cookie.

Take another cookie and this time let it warm up in your hands. When warm, squeeze
the two halves together and the cream filling will squeeze out of the side and through
holes in the cookie. Although the force require to do this is in a different direction it
is causing the cream to shear. This may take more force.

Now eat the cookie.

We can get technical if you like. For example, if you were to do the first test with two
cookies it would take twice as much force to slide them apart. This is because the
force increases with area. The area in this case is that of the cream filling.

Sure I can get more technical with formulae, illustrations and the like but to grasp
the basics this is all you need.

It also tastes better.

Alan
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José Esteves B. Rabello, studied Mechanical Engineering at Universidade Santa Ursula

(1994)
Answered Jan 26
Originally Answered: What actually is shear force? I don't understand it.
It is a stress, a force divided by area.

This force is muchlike pressure, with the difference that the applied force is
transversal to the surface area:

Shear stress - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Kamran Khademi, MS. Architecture & Structural Engineering, University of Tehran
(1970)
Answered Jan 26
Originally Answered: What actually is shear force? I don't understand it.
In structural elements, particularly beams, there are three major forces that are
caused by the loads that the member has to support.

Tension, compression and shear.

Tension and compression act axially along the length of the beam.

Shear froce is a force that would cut the member along a surface perpendicular to the
axial direction of that beam or member, if the member were not strong enough to
resist the shearing.
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Dheeraj Nakra, B tech Civil Engineering & Education, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National
Institute of Technology, Jalandhar (2014)
Answered Jan 3
Originally Answered: What is shear force?
A force is a physical phenomena which cuases movement of a mass (body). If body is
restricted to move same force is unable to make rigid body movememt but can cause
change in dimensions of body. This change is dimension is resisted by a body its
internal strength which is pronounced as stress.

Same is the case with SHEAR that due to application of shear change in the shape
occurs which is called distortion of body. This occurd when a body is applied with a
force tangential to any surface.

A fluid flow is also an example of continuous shear deformation of fluid particals

A soil mass slipping over a slopy surface is also an example of shear deformation.

Friction force acting on a surface acts tangential to surface hence it is also shear
force.

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Swapnil Bilari, former Civil Engineer

Answered Jun 28, 2017
Shear force is the internal force developed in the structure which resist or balance the
applied external force.

Shear force varies according to stiffness, type of support of the structural member.
If applied external force value at a point in a member exceed the shear force value at
that point then member would not be able to resist deformation. So for structural
stability shear force must be greater than external load.

To find shear force in a member, we can use three equilibrium conditions.

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Rahul Vishark, M.S. Grad at NTU, Singapore

Answered Aug 30
Shear force is something which causes parallel surfaces of a body to slide in opposite
direction to each other. The angle made by the force applied to the sliding surface is
zero. Please note that the force might make 90 degrees with another surface in the
body, but what is important is it makes no angle with the sliding surface.

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Nurul Hossain, worked at Former Dept Chair - Mechanical Eng, York Technical College
Answered Nov 7
Originally Answered: What is shear force in beam?
In general, beam shear stress T (Tau - the greek letter) = VQ/Ib. Where, V = shear
force (lb, N), Q - area moment mm^3, in^3, i.e., moment of the area above the
neutral axis, I - larger of the two moments of inertia of the beam cross-section
(mm^4, in^4), b - width of the beam (mm, in). Please look through a book of solid
mechanics for clear definition of these terms before doing the calculations. Answer
should be in kPa or ksi.

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Ankit Kothari, Knows basic physics

Answered Jan 17
Originally Answered: What is sheer force?
Maybe you're asking about shear force and not sheer force.

Simplistically speaking, shear force is the kind of force applied by a “ shear” or a pair
of scissors. If large enough shear force is applied to a constrained body, it will get
torn or sheared like a piece of paper or blade of grass.

Then there is another engineering meaning of shear force where a body is subjected
to multiple forces resultant of which are not about the same line or point and can
cause body to rotate, twist, bend, tear etc (what i have written is not a strict definition
but a general description)

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Richard Guy, studied at The University of West London

Answered Jan 26
Originally Answered: What actually is shear force? I don't understand it.
The first law of statics is: “Each action exerts an equal and opposite re-action” So to
simplfy that further if you have a loaded beam spanning 20 feet with a UDL of 100
Lbs /per foot run your reaction at each column will be 2000/2 ie 1000 Lbs. The
reaction of 2000 Lbs is pushing up and the beam is pushing down and that force is
the shearing force. It occurs in the area close to the column, That distance is clearly
indicated when we draw the bending moment diagram and superimpose the shear
force diagram on it. That distance is where you provide shear reinforcement in the
beam design. I hope that enlightens you?
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Ala'a Al-Afghani, PhD student Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Merced

Answered Jan 26
Originally Answered: What actually is shear force? I don't understand it.
Shear force is a force component that is parallel to a cross sectional area of interest.
This force is trying to cut the part at that cross sectional area.

For example imagine two rulers and you glue them on top of each other at half of
their length. Like the image below

https://www.google.com/search?q=...:

If you pull the rulers apart you will be applying a shear force that is parallel to the
area of adhesion. And that force is trying to cut that area and end up with the two
rulers. The area of shear is the overlap area with glue. If you are interested in
calculating shear stress then you should divide the force over that area.

Look at this image too.

https://www.google.com/search?q=...:

The area of shear is the cross sectional area of the pin In the first case and twice the
cross sectional area in the second since it's cutting at two places.

Hope this helps

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HARIKRISHNAN S, B.E Civil Engineering, AnnaUniversity (2017)

Answered Jul 9, 2017
Originally Answered: What is shear force in beams?
How do you tear down a paper….. Applying force in opposite directions right that's.
Nothing but shear…

Now coming to talk about shear in beams…. The upwards soil pressure transmitted
via the footing and the column creates an upward force at the beam column junction
while the slab dead load+ live load+dead load of the respective beam acts in the
downward direction…… thus shear is generated… now in order to compensate that
stirrups are placed at minimum spacing at the junction and at more spacing but less
than 300mm in the middle

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Art Bacus, studied Land Surveying

Answered Mar 4, 2015
Shear force is an External and a single force so that when applied horizontally or
vertically to a solid body causing the two cross-sectional planes of that body to slide
or slip in opposite directions.
Force is a total force like in Kilonewton, Newton or Pounds, whereas Stress is a unit
force measured in per unit area basis, i.e. 5 kn/sq.mm.
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Vikash Kumar, B.tech Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar

Answered Tue
Let we understand it practically what is shear?

Take a piece of chalk and try to bend it,What happens?

After a certain loading it will break.This action i.e the breaking of chalk is known as
shear and the force associated with it is known as shear force.

As the chalk is a brittle material it breaks with very little loading and has almost no
bending.
But in case of ductile or semi-ductile material like concrete ,it doesn’t break easily
instead it bends.For example RCC beam. After some time concrete shears, it doesn’t
fall apart and there is formation of crack which is known as shear cracks.

I hope you like my answer.

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