Stresses The maximum tensile stress in a cantilever beam with a concentrated load acting downwards on the span is caused at -

Dnyan Deshmukh

Staff member
The maximum tensile stress in a cantilever beam with a concentrated load acting downwards on the span is caused at -

(a) Top fiber at mid span

(b) Bottom fiber at mid span

(c) Bottom fiber at the support

(d) Top fiber at the support.

The correct Answer Is
(d) Top fiber at the support.
 

Jayant Joshi

Senior Member
The maximum tensile stress in a cantilever beam with a concentrated load acting downwards on the span is caused at -


Ans. (d) Top fiber at the support.