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This chapter completes the sequence which began with trusses some pages back. As you move up in terms of complexity from trusses, space frames add new issues which revolve about the rotation matrix (see Appendix 3). Both trusses and plane frames can be described geometrically in terms of node coordinates. That is, certainly for the case of straight members, the geometry of trusses and plane frames can be described by giving the coordinates of the ends of the members. That is not the case for space frames where members can still be rotated about their axes after their ends have been located. From another side, joint rotations in plane frames can still be treated as scalars while joint rotations in space frames require the concept of a rotation matrix.
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Levy, R., Spillers, W.R. (2003). Nonlinear Analysis of Space Frames. In: Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0243-0_5
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