The Algebraic Geometry of Motions of Bar-and-Body Frameworks

DOI10.1137/0608001zbMath0635.51014OpenAlexW2068418846MaRDI QIDQ3774446

Walter J. Whiteley, Neil L. White

Publication date: 1987

Published in: SIAM Journal on Algebraic Discrete Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/0608001

zbMATH Keywords

rigid bodiesirreducible factorbar-and-joint frameworklattice of blocksstatic stressinfinitesimal motionBar-and-body frameworks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thin bodies, structures (74K99) Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10) Statics (70C20) Line geometries and their generalizations (51M30) Kinematics (70B99)

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