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Diagram of a beam bridge spanning over water, with red lines along the top showing areas under tension and green lines along the supports and lower sections indicating compression forces.

Figure 7: Transverse motion of an initially straight beam, shown at left as an elastic line and at right as a solid of finite section (see text).

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