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Engineering Mechancis: Statics and Dynamics

by Anthony Bedford and Wallace Fowler
Fourth Edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddele River, NJ 2005

Authors' Homepages: Anthony Bedford Wallace Fowler

Chapter 10: Internal Forces and Moments

"We began our study of equilibrium by drawing free-body diagrams of individual objects to determine unknown forces and moments acting on them. In this chapter we carry this process one step further and draw free-body diagrams of parts of individual objects to determine internal forces and moments. In doing so, we arrive at the central concern of the structural design engineer: It is the forces which an object that determine whether it will support the external loads to which it is subjected."

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