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Optimal Force Method: Analysis of Skeletal Structures

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This chapter starts with presenting simple and general methods for calculating the degree of static indeterminacy of different types of skeletal structures, such as rigid-jointed planar and space frames, pin-jointed planar trusses and ball-jointed space trusses. Then the progress made in the force method of structural analysis in recent years is presented. Efficient methods are developed for the formation of highly sparse flexibility matrices for different types of skeletal structures.

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Kaveh, A. (2014). Optimal Force Method: Analysis of Skeletal Structures. In: Computational Structural Analysis and Finite Element Methods. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02964-1_2

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