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The paper reviews the nature of the mesh description of the structural laws of statics and kinematics and its relation to the more commonly employed nodal description. A wider scope for application of the mesh description is suggested through two non-standard structural mechanics problems, each of which can be represented by a linear complementarity problem. The first is that of a beam on a two-parameter elastic foundation, while the second is that of the dynamic response of a rigid plastic framed structure to pulse loading.
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Smith, D.L. (1991). The Mesh Description for Structural Analysis by Mathematical Programming. In: Grierson, D.E., Franchi, A., Riva, P. (eds) Progress in Structural Engineering. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3616-7_36
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