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Homework Statement
Find the shear and bending moment diagram for a fully restrained beam with a length of 5m, a uniform distributed load of 1kN/m from x=0 to 2m, a point load of 1kN at 2m, and another uniform distributed load of .9kN/m from x=2, to x=5.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I am running into trouble finding the reaction points at A and B (the two fixed ends). The beam is statically indeterminate so I cannot sum the forces in the y direction, and sum the moments about A. I am a mechanical engineering graduate who may have briefly gone over this in my strengths class but that was a long time ago. I was reading up on deflection formulas and if I can get all the information I need if I can write the moment equation, but that is also giving me trouble (I cannot figure out how to break it up correctly to get the free body diagram for each section and obtain the moment equation to integrate/derivate). Any help would be appreciated.