1       (worth 60 marks) 1.1      Introduction A cantilever beam is loaded by a uniformly-distributed load (UDL)  (Fig. 1).  Due to the applied force, the beam deforms (is no longer perfectly straight), but the deformation is con- sidered to be so small relative to the length of the beam that there is no horizontal movement (although there is rotation).   The deflection of the beam (the vertical distance between the original location of the centroid and the deformed location of the centroid) at any point along the beam can be calculated  usin... More