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Force density method's energy principle and application in membrane-cable-strut-beam hybrid structures
School of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, 230601, China.
School of Civil Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, 230601, China.
School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510641, China.
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Biomedical Engineering and Health Systems, Medical Imaging.ORCID iD: 0009-0005-5560-1684
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2025 (English)In: Journal of Building Engineering, E-ISSN 2352-7102, Vol. 99, article id 111523Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The force density method (FDM) is a classical method for form finding and static analysis of membrane-cable-strut-beam hybrid structures (HS). This study focuses on the energy principle of FDM, and establishes the potential energies for HS in the form-finding and static analysis stages. The HS model is discretized into link, T and beam elements. Equilibrium equations and stiffness matrices are formulated using the principle of stationary potential energy. In the integrated analysis, the compatibility between the link and beam element is resolved by adopting (x, y, z, θx, θy, θz) as degrees of freedom (DOF) and transforming the beam's DOF into coordinate differences. The global matrix is assembled using nodal global DOF numbers, showing a computational advantage over the conventional topological matrix method. FDM has demonstrated consistency in form-finding and static analysis stages by applying constant and elastic force densities. The algorithm has been implemented in a program called TMCAD with all the calculation details illustrated, and FDM's effectiveness is verified through five HS examples.

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Elsevier BV , 2025. Vol. 99, article id 111523
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Energy principle, Force density method, Form finding, Hybrid structure, Static analysis
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Applied Mechanics Computational Mathematics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-357936DOI: 10.1016/j.jobe.2024.111523ISI: 001383324900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85211357978OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-357936DiVA, id: diva2:1922643
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Available from: 2024-12-19 Created: 2024-12-19 Last updated: 2025-01-28Bibliographically approved

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