The Exact Design of Statically Indeterminate Frame Works. An Exposition of Its Possibility, But Futility

Abstract

In the theoretic consideration of all material systems it is customary, in fact necessary, to replace them by more or less equivalent but simpler systems. This alone makes their analytic examination possible, not to say practicable; and the results thus obtained, although applying strictly only to the ideal constructions of theory, throw much valuable light on the workings of the actual material systems.