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This final chapter on network-type problems deals with finding the best design of a structure to support a specified load at a fixed set of points.
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Civil engineers refer to beams as members.
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Vanderbei, R.J. (2020). Structural Optimization. In: Linear Programming. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 285. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39415-8_16
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