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Flexibility Method: Source From Aircraft Structures by T. H. G. Megson

The flexibility method is an alternative approach to solving statically indeterminate beams and frames. It involves releasing or removing redundant members or supports from the structure until it becomes statically determinate. The displacements of points in the released structure are then determined using the unit load method. Unknown forces are applied to points where the structure was released, and compatibility is used to ensure the displacements match those of the released structure, allowing the unknown forces to be obtained. This approach is known as the flexibility method.

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Flexibility Method: Source From Aircraft Structures by T. H. G. Megson

The flexibility method is an alternative approach to solving statically indeterminate beams and frames. It involves releasing or removing redundant members or supports from the structure until it becomes statically determinate. The displacements of points in the released structure are then determined using the unit load method. Unknown forces are applied to points where the structure was released, and compatibility is used to ensure the displacements match those of the released structure, allowing the unknown forces to be obtained. This approach is known as the flexibility method.

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Flexibility method

An alternative approach to the solution of statically indeterminate beams


and frames is to release the structure

i.e. remove redundant members or supports, until the structure becomes


statically determinate.

The displacement of some point in the released structure is then


determined by the unit load method.

The actual loads on the structure are removed and unknown forces applied
to the points where the structure has been released;

the displacement at the point produced by these unknown forces must,


from compatibility,
Source from Aircraft Structures by T. H. G. Megson
be the same as that in the released structure. The unknown forces are then
obtained; this approach is known as the flexibility method.

Source from Aircraft Structures by T. H. G. Megson

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