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There are a number of practical phenomena in structures which simply can not be described using a linear formulation. Among these are buckling, the behavior of cable nets and fabric structures, the formation of plastic hinges, the nonlinear material behavior of concrete, structural collapse,... In all these cases (and many others) what has come to be known as the elementary theory of structures does not work or at least needs to be augmented. The question is of course how.
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Levy, R., Spillers, W.R. (2003). Overview. In: Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0243-0_1
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