Abstract: Statics, as the name implies, is concerned with the study of bodies at rest or, in other words, in equilibrium, under the action of a force system. Actually, a moving body is in equilibrium if the forces acting on it are producing neither acceleration nor deceleration. However, in structural engineering, structural members are generally at rest and therefore in a state of statical equilibrium. In this chapter we shall discuss those principles of statics that are essential to structural and stress analysis; an elementary knowledge of vectors is assumed.
Publication Year: 2019
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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