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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-802386-0.00008-6
In book: Essentials of the Finite Element Method, pp.279-288
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D. G. Pavlou
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This chapter contains an introduction to the principle of the minimum potential
energy. For understanding the physical meaning of this variational method, its
implementation on one-dimensional elements is presented and the
corresponding procedures for finite element modeling of spring and bar
elements, as well as of trusses and beams, are provided. For this purpose,
the stationary potential energy of the structural system, shape functions of
deformed elements, and symbolic mathematics are used to develop the
element stiffness matrices.

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