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Once a sign convention has been chosen, it has to be maintained for the whole structure. The traditional engineer's sign convention is not used in the calculations of the moment distribution method although the results can be expressed in the conventional way. In the BMD case, the left side moment is clockwise direction and other is anticlockwise direction so the bending is positive and is called sagging.

=== Framed structuresstructure ===

Framed structuresstructure with or without sidesway can be analysed using the moment distribution method.

== Example ==