Everything about Statics

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: StaticsA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Statics and dynamics of skyrmions interacting with disorder and nanostructuresInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Engineering Mechanics, StaticsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Wetting: statics and dynamicsCited 6,695 times
5. Go sideways: Rigid body dynamicsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Net forceA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Wetting: statics and dynamics

  P. G. de Gennes · 1985 · Reviews of Modern Physics · 6,695 citations

• Monotone Comparative Statics

  Paul Milgrom, Chris Shannon · 1994 · Econometrica · 1,106 citations

• Statics and dynamics of worm-like surfactant micelles

  M E Cates, S J Candau · 1990 · Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter · 1,047 citations

• Gradient elasticity in statics and dynamics: An overview of formulations, length scale identification procedures, finite element implementations and new results

  Harm Askes, Elias C. Aifantis · 2011 · International Journal of Solids and Structures · 863 citations

• Statics and Dynamics of Continuum Robots With General Tendon Routing and External Loading

  D. Caleb Rucker, Robert J. Webster III · 2011 · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 651 citations

• Thermoreversible Gelation in Solutions of Associative Polymers. 1. Statics

  Alexander N. Semenov, Michael Rubinstein · 1998 · Macromolecules · 630 citations

• An accurate, simple theory of the statics and dynamics of elastic plates

  Mark Levinson · 1980 · Mechanics Research Communications · 593 citations

• From crystal statics to chemical dynamics

  Hans Beat Buergi, Jack D. Dunitz · 1983 · Accounts of Chemical Research · 586 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Statics and dynamics of skyrmions interacting with disorder and nanostructures

  C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt, M. V. Milošević · 2022 · Reviews of Modern Physics · 233 citations

• Topology Optimization: A Review for Structural Designs Under Statics Problems

  Tianshu Tang, Leijia Wang, Mingqiao Zhu · 2024 · Materials · 86 citations

• Statics and Dynamics of Continuum Robots Based on Cosserat Rods and Optimal Control Theories

  Frédéric Boyer, Vincent Lebastard, Fabien Candelier · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Robotics · 54 citations

• Fundamentals of Curvilinear Ferromagnetism: Statics and Dynamics of Geometrically Curved Wires and Narrow Ribbons

  Denis D. Sheka, Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Oleksii M. Volkov · 2022 · Small · 52 citations

• Non-Hermitian higher-order topological superconductors in two dimensions: Statics and dynamics

  Arnob Kumar Ghosh, Tanay Nag · 2022 · Physical Review B · 43 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Engineering Mechanics, StaticsR. C. Hibbeler · 1920
• Engineering Mechanics, Statics & DynamicsR. C. Hibbeler · 1974
• Vector Mechanics for Engineers, DynamicsFerdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr. · 1962
• Vector Mechanics for Engineers, StaticsFerdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr. · 1962
• Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Statics & DynamicsFerdinand Pierre Beer, E. Russell Johnston, Jr. · 1962
• Engineering mechanicsA. Bedford, Anthony Bedford · 1998
• Engineering mechanicsJ. L. Meriam, L. G. Kraige · 1978
• Engineering mechanicsAndrew Pytel, Jaan Kiusalaas · 1978

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