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Work and Potential Energy

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Students will become familiar with the concepts of work, conservative forces and potential energy. In addition, they will learn about the principle of virtual work. After studying this chapter, students should be able to correctly apply this principle in order to determine equilibrium states in nonrigid systems as well as support reactions and internal forces and moments. Finally, it will be shown how to investigate the stability of equilibrium states of conservative systems with one degree of freedom.

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  1. TU Darmstadt Solid Mechanics, Hochschulstr. 1, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Dietmar Gross

  2. TU Darmstadt Continuum Mechanics, Hochschulstr. 1, 64289, Darmstadt, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Werner Hauger

  3. Universität Duisburg-Essen Institute of Mechanics, Universitätsstr. 15, 45141, Essen, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Jörg Schröder

  4. TU München Numerical Mechanics, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85747, Garching, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Wolfgang A. Wall

  5. Faculty of Applied Sciences, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, Canada

    Prof. Dr. Nimal Rajapakse

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Gross, D., Hauger, W., Schröder, J., Wall, W.A., Rajapakse, N. (2009). Work and Potential Energy. In: Engineering Mechanics 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89937-2_9

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