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[[File:The Little Belt Bridge (1935).jpeg|thumb|[[Little Belt Bridge|''Little Belt'']]: a [[truss bridge]] in [[Denmark]]]]

A beam may be defined as an element in [[which]] one dimension is much greater than the other two and the applied loads are usually normal to the main axis of the element. Beams and columns are called line elements and are often represented by simple lines in structural modeling.

* [[cantilever]]ed (supported at one end only with a fixed connection)

* simply supported (fixed against vertical translation at each end and horizontal translation at one end only, and able to rotate at the supports)