Deflection Verifications in Steel Design

[i.franco]

Good day.

I was going through some manual verifications of deflections for some steel beams, and I checked them manually with a result of 22mm. When I ran the program calculations in order to verify the deflection, it verifies with a smaller one. So I checked the beam deflection diagram and found that my manual result was correct, but the program shows a tabulated value of 13mm. Why does this happen?? Is there any way for the program to calculate the real maximum deflection??

[Artur.Kosakowski · Accepted solution]

My assumption is that you compare displacement in the middle of the bar with deflection which is the difference between the displacement in the middle and displacements of the supports (10 mm).

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