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At this point it should be clear that the principle of virtual work is an integral form of expressing equilibrium, and when we introduce the other two basic requirements to be satisfied, namely, compatibility and the constitutive behavior into the virtual work statement, we have the mathematical model formulated in integral form. It is then called the variational formulation of the problem.
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Bucalem, M.L., Bathe, KJ. (2011). The finite element process of solution. In: The Mechanics of Solids and Structures - Hierarchical Modeling and the Finite Element Solution. Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-26400-2_6
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