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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 6: Structures in Equilibrium

"In engineering, the term structure can refer to any object that has the capacity to support and exert loads. In this chapter we consider structures composed of interconnected parts, or members. To design such a structure, or to determine whether an existing one is adequate, it is necessary to determine the forces an couples acting on the structure as a whole as well as on its individual members. We first demonstrate how this is done for the structures called trusses, which are composed entirely of two-force members. The familiar frameworks of steel members that support some highway bridges are trusses. When then consider other structures, called frames if they are designed to remain stationary and support loads and machines if they are designed to move and exert loads."

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