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Stationary rigid structures are a part of our daily lives. The houses that we live in, the roads and bridges that we pass by in traffic, dams, etc. All of these structures are able to maintain their statical status because they can actually keep the forces acting on them in equilibrium, in other words, they remain in static equilibrium. The science that is concerned with objects and structures in equilibrium is called Statics; it is an important area of study in civil and mechanical engineering, architecture and many other branches of science and technology.
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Karaoglu, B. (2020). Static Equilibrium. In: Classical Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38456-2_8
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