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Structural mechanics or Mechanics of structures is the computation
of deformations, deflections, and internal forces or stresses (stress
equivalents) within structures, either for design or for performance
evaluation of existing structures. It is one subset of structural analysis.
Structural mechanics analysis needs input data such as structural loads,
the structure's geometric representation and support conditions, and the
materials' properties. Output quantities may include support reactions,
stresses and displacements. Advanced structural mechanics may include
the effects of stability and non-linear behaviors.
Mechanics of structures is a field of study within applied mechanics that
investigates the behavior of structures under mechanical loads, such as
bending of a beam, buckling of a column, torsion of a shaft, deflection
of a thin shell, and vibration of a bridge.
There are three approaches to the analysis: the energy methods,
flexibility method or direct stiffness method which later developed into
finite element method and the plastic analysis approach.
1 Energy method
2 Flexibility method
3 Stiffness methods
4 Plastic analysis approach
5 Major topics
6 External links
Energy principles in structural mechanics
Flexibility method
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Direct stiffness method
Finite element method in structural mechanics
Plastic Analysis
Beam theory
Buckling
Earthquake engineering
Finite element method in structural mechanics
Plates and shells
Torsion
Trusses
Stiffening
Structural dynamics
Structural instability
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