15STRUCTURAL MODELS
In this part of the book, we’ll focus on solving truss structures. Truss structures are used to support the roof of industrial warehouses (see Figure 15-1) and long-span bridges. This is a real engineering problem that is a good example of building an application that reads data from a file, builds a model out of that data, solves a system of linear equations, and presents the results graphically in a diagram.
Since solving truss structures is a big topic, we’ll break it down into several chapters. This first one will give you a rough introduction to the basics of mechanics of materials; it’s not meant to explain the concepts ...
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