Ref: Structural Analysis, A Unified Classical and Matrix Approach, Ghali,A.M.Neville & T.G.

Brown

We recall that famed structures are analyzed as a skeleton representing the centroidal axes of the members (Section 1.6); this is to make possible use of the simpler Eqs.1.23 and 1.24 in lieu of Eqs.1.21 to 1.22 which must be used when O is not at the centroid.

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