nodal forces
1Finite element method in structural mechanics — Finite element method (FEM) is a powerful technique originally developed for numerical solution of complex problems in structural mechanics, and it remains the method of choice for complex systems. In the FEM, the structural system is modeled by… …
2Direct stiffness method — As one of the methods of structural analysis, the direct stiffness method (DSM), also known as the displacement method or matrix stiffness method, is particularly suited for computer automated analysis of complex structures including the… …
3Matrix stiffness method — In structural engineering, the matrix stiffness method (or simply stiffness method , also known as Direct stiffness method) is a matrix method that makes use of the members stiffness relations for computing member forces and displacements in… …
4Flexibility method — In structural engineering, the flexibility method is the classical consistent deformation method for computing member forces and displacements in structural systems. Its modern version formulated in terms of the members flexibility matrices also… …
5Unit dummy force method — The Unit dummy force method provides a convenient means for computing displacements in structural systems. It is applicable for both linear and non linear material behaviours as well as for systems subject to environmental effects, and hence more …
6chemical bonding — ▪ chemistry Introduction any of the interactions that account for the association of atoms into molecules, ions, crystals, and other stable species that make up the familiar substances of the everyday world. When atoms approach one another …
7earthquake — /errth kwayk /, n. 1. a series of vibrations induced in the earth s crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating. 2. something that is severely disruptive; upheaval. [1300 50; ME erthequake …
8ŒDIPE (COMPLEXE D’) — Pour Freud, le complexe d’Œdipe, inséparable de la découverte de l’inconscient, désigne à la fois le «complexe nucléaire de la névrose» et le «point nodal» du désir infantile (en tant que «l’inconscient, c’est l’infantile en nous»): la sexualité… …
9Vibraphone — Infobox instrument name=Vibraphone names=Vibraharp, Vibes image capt=A typical vibraphone color=#FFEC8B classification=Percussion instrument (Idiophone) range= related= musicians= builders= articles=The vibraphone, sometimes called the vibraharp… …
10solids, mechanics of — ▪ physics Introduction science concerned with the stressing (stress), deformation (deformation and flow), and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces.… …
