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Most parts of most designs act to some extent as structure, they transmit or support loads, and the materials of which they are made and the forms which they are given must be appropriate to this function, as well as meeting many other requirements.
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© 1992 Michael French
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French, M. (1992). Structures. In: Form, Structure and Mechanism. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21950-6_2
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