Hi,

There was a beam question in the CSWSP exam that I was stuck for like 60 minutes. The problem I had was that the question required us to define some of the parts to the trusses and others to be beams;however, one of the beams was too short to be defined as a beam probably intentionally. I had no clue on how to solve it because I couldn't even define that part as a beam.  I did try to extend that part to the point where it  met the minimum requirements of being a beam but apparently it was not a right approach.

Does anyone have any clues on how to solve that problem?

Thank you

Stanley