Identify Tension & Compression Members in Truss Analysis

A simple no math method to determine whether a beam / member within a truss is under tension or compression.
I showed the forces BY the members ON the joints. I know this is not the convention many people follow, but I find it more natural when apply Newton's Second Law to joints when working the Method of Joints to analyze a truss.

[@SunnyS5]

Your vids made me understand the conecpts right away, man you deserve more subs

[@Kkina303]

Hands down the best explanation I've seen so far
I was really wondering how a member can be under tension, and i couldn't understand it until i watched your video, thx

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

Glad it helped!

[@sceneryj]

I like this intuitive approach much better than the "assume all members are under compression/tension and let the math update your assumptions" approach. Using intuition to establish the state of each member beforehand, just makes the math that slightly bit more obvious IMO. (Although, I do prefer doing this one joint at a time, rather than all members in advance.) And sure, if somehow your intuition was wrong - the math is still there to correct you.

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

I never liked the 'guess and check through math' method either. It's too easy for one mistake to snowball through an entire truss solution.

[@Imagine_Beyond]

This is a much better method than I learnt. What I was taught was to just imagine the single segment of the truss and then find out all the forces on either end of it. Next, I had to calculate the sum force on either end and see if the 2 forces were going in the same direction or opposite direction. Using that, we could determine if the segment was under tension or compression.

[@lifequotient]

Much more tedious, especially in a time crunch scenario like a test

[@Imagine_Beyond]

@@lifequotient Surprisingly, it actually worked well during the test. Of course the method in the video is less time consuming .

[@Carhill]

Nice and intuitive explanation.

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

thanks

[@shwetachoudhary-xy7nv]

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[@lifequotient]

Lifesaver. Thank you!!!

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

Glad it helped!

[@amateurchessnoobs]

Thanks so much for this

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

No problem

[@maxine1784]

thank you so so so much.

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

You're welcome!

[@mostafaballouta7602]

Hey man , could u please translate your ved in arabic , i cant stop watching your ved and i find it hard at the same time

[@INTEGRALPHYSICS]

I will look into how to make that happen.

[@mostafaballouta7602]

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