Force-Displacement Method for Trusses
Force-Displacement Method for Trusses
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Hi,
I've been out of school for 16 years now but recently got into post grad studies in structural engineering. There is a dearth of text books inh Nigeria here. Does any one out there know of an online resource for info on analysis of indeterminate trusses using the the Forec-displacement method. Also tell me if there is a differnce between this method and the other 2 methods of Force and displacement, which is easy to find in most structures text books.
Regards,
Audu
I've been out of school for 16 years now but recently got into post grad studies in structural engineering. There is a dearth of text books inh Nigeria here. Does any one out there know of an online resource for info on analysis of indeterminate trusses using the the Forec-displacement method. Also tell me if there is a differnce between this method and the other 2 methods of Force and displacement, which is easy to find in most structures text books.
Regards,
Audu





RE: Force-Displacement Method for Trusses
My supervisor recently dug out an ancient Text on te force-displacement method written by Smolira...it's very interesting actually and has got me started. What it is: he wants me to write a program using FEM or Direct stiffness Method (honestly, i do not see any difference between the two methods wrt trusses)and verify my results using the force-displacement method.
surprisingly, i have written the program for both 2d and 3d analysis and it has worked thus far!...still testing it, though. thanks for all your help at eng-tiops that got me started.
regards,
john audu