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Technique for computing member forces and displacements in a structure

In structural engineering, the flexibility method, also called the method of consistent deformations, is the traditional method for computing member forces and displacements in structural systems. Its modern version formulated in terms of the members' flexibility matrices also has the name the matrix force method due to its use of member forces as the primary unknowns. Wikipedia →

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  3. Pick up a classic book: Flexible AC Transmission SystemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The Status of Method: Flexibility, Consistency and CoherenceCited 515 times
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  6. Go sideways: Finite element method in structural mechanicsA closely related topic

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