EasyBeam

EasyBeam is a continuous beam analysis application for structural or mechanical engineers, or anyone who needs to calculate bending moments, shear forces or deflections of multi-span beams.

This is the full version. Please try the Free Trial version before purchasing this app, just to make sure it will work on your device. Search the market for "EasyBeam Trial".

The types of properties you can enter are
- Lengths
- Uniformly Distributed Loads
- Point Loads
- Modulus of Elasticity
- Second Moment of Area

The calculated outputs are
- Bending Moments
- Shear Forces
- Deflections
- Support Reactions
- Points of Contraflexure
- Zero Shear Force points
These are in both graph and numerical form.

At the moment all the beam supports are pinned and there’s no option to change that. Depending on whether people like this program, I may add support in the future for things like …
- Fixed supports
- Cantilevers
- Standard Section Library
- Imperial Units
- Saving beam data so you can load it again later on
- If you have any other ideas, let me know.

Note that you can currently enter imperial values and you should get correct answers, just ignore the unit labels on the answers, as everything is in Metric units.

Note 30/08/12 - Negative (upward) forces can't be applied to the beam the way I've currnetly designed the program. I'm working on updating some parts of the program and this is one of them.

The EasyBeam user guide (PDF Format) is available for download here…
http://www.filefactory.com/file/5vbfr3jiwd2p/n/EasyBeam_User_Guide_pdf

Thanks for taking a look at EasyBeam ! Please let me know if you find any problems with this application or have any questions.

This application is only intended for preliminary design use. Proper structural design should be carried out using a commercial design package. The developer of this application takes no responsibility for anything designed using this application.