Development of a computational software in Python, used to study the materials resistance in beams

TL;DR

This paper presents a Python-based computational software for analyzing efforts, bending moments, and deformations in beams, aiding researchers and educators in structural analysis with practical visualization tools.

Contribution

The work introduces a new Python software implementing double-integration and conjugate-beam methods for beam resistance analysis, including a graphical interface.

Findings

Successfully developed a computational tool for beam analysis

Generated stress, moment, and deformation graphs for various beam types

Validated the software's effectiveness in practical structural analysis

Abstract

In this research, we do a software writing in Python to calculate the efforts, bending moments and deformations in beams of different materials. This computational tool, that we developed, is of great help in area of computational physical, more exactly in resistance of materials, which serves as support for researchers and teachers especially in physics and civil engineering, of the part of statics, who wish to carry out the modeling of the functions, involved in the calculation of resistance in beams in a practical and simple way, using the software presented in this article. In order to carry out this software, we are going to use the following methods: the double-integration method and the conjugate-beam method, which will serve as the basis of calculation to find the mathematical expressions involved in the analysis of resistance in beams, then we will perform the implementation of the aforementioned methods, using Python as the programming language. As a final step in this project, the graphical interface of said calculation tool will be made using the Python 3.0 Tkinter library. In this work, we show the results of the graphs of the stress profiles, bending moments and deformations, for the case of different types of beams, load and force distributions applied to them. Where we were also able to conclude that a calculation software was successfully built, dedicated to the analysis of efforts and deformations in beams made of different materials.