Determining the appropriate reactions at a support
Channel: Calvin Rans
Date: 2020-07-18

In this video, we take a look at how to determine what the appropriate reaction forces and moments should be in a free body diagram when removing an engineering support. The previous video on Free Body Diagrams can be found here: https://youtu.be/MdEpLHxT_do 

This video is part of a series of blended learning videos for the course Engineering Mechanics: Statics with the Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering programme at TUDelft.

0:00 Introduction
1:00 Degrees of freedom of a rigid body

2:00 Procedure for determining reactions
4:06 Reactions at Contact Surfaces
6:31 Reactions at Wheel, Roller, Rocker, and Ball supports
9:19 Reactions at a Pinned Support
10:12 Reaction at a Fixed Support