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Consider the beam in the figure below.  It is clamped on the left side and has a point force of 8kN acting downward on the right end of the beam.The beam has a length of 4 meters, width of 0.346 meters and height of 0.346 meters. The beam is made out of a special material called Cornellian which has a Young's Modulus of 2.8 x 10^10 Pa and a Poisson ratio of 0.4 .

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