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From Reality to a Free Body Diagram

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How to single out the structure element of interest from its surrounding

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Emri, I., Voloshin, A. (2016). From Reality to a Free Body Diagram. In: Statics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2101-0_3

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