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Theory of Michell Structures. Single Load Case

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Michell Structures

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The Michell structures are solutions to the problems of optimum design put forward and discussed in Sects. 2.1 and 2.2 provided that the nodes of the trusses may be placed at arbitrary point of the design domain being a subdomain of the plane or of the Euclidean space. The present chapter introduces the reader to the main topic of the book.

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  1. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Tomasz Lewiński

  2. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Tomasz Sokół

  3. Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Cezary Graczykowski

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Lewiński, T., Sokół, T., Graczykowski, C. (2019). Theory of Michell Structures. Single Load Case. In: Michell Structures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95180-5_3

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