#nonlinear solution

ECE1254H Modeling of Multiphysics Systems. Lecture 12: Struts and Joints, Node branch formulation. Taught by Prof. Piero Triverio

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Peeter’s lecture notes from class. These may be incoherent and rough.

Struts and Joints, Node branch formulation

Let’s consider the simple strut system of fig. 1 again.

fig. 1. Simple strut system

  Our unknowns are

Forces at each of the points we have a force with two components \begin{equation}\label{eqn:multiphysicsL…