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The stiffness or displacement method for analyzing structures is exemplified by means of trusses. This type of structure has been relatively neglected until now because, in the view of the author, truss analysis by the force method is numerically too cumbersome. The stiffness method, on the other hand, is totally independent of the type of structure and applies with equal ease to trusses, beams and frames. We, of course, bear in mind that the computations are all computerized.
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Not to be confused with the \(3 \times 1\) vector function \({\varvec{u}}(x)\) of components u(x), v(x) and \(\theta (x)\), seen earlier.
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See also Chap. 3.
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Fuchs, M.B. (2016). Introducing the Stiffness Method . In: Structures and Their Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31081-7_14
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