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bending moment

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mechanics of solids
Linear elastic beam
…torque M, commonly called a bending moment, about the positive 3-direction. The linear and angular momentum principles then require that the actions at that section on the part of the line lying along the direction of increasing X₁ be of equal magnitude but opposite sign.
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…torque M, commonly called a bending moment, about the positive 3-direction. The linear and angular momentum principles then require that the actions at that section on the part of the line lying along the direction of increasing X₁ be of equal magnitude but opposite sign.
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