1985 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Influence Functions
Author : Dr.-Ing. Friedel Hartmann
Published in: The Mathematical Foundation of Structural Mechanics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The equations formulated in chapter 5 find many applications. Not because concentrated loads occur so often, they are rather fictitious, abstract quantities, but because concentrated loads are useful in the calculation of single displacements. This method is known as “the dummy-unit-load method”.