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Consideration of the energy stored in a structural system and the variation of this energy with force or deformation provides a powerful method of structural analysis.
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© 1981 B. W. Young
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Young, B.W. (1981). Preliminaries. In: Energy Methods of Structural Analysis. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05101-4_1
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