ABSTRACT
The previous chapters have been concerned with the behaviour of individual cross-sections and the analysis and design of statically determinate members. In such members, the deformation of individual cross-sections can take place without restraint being introduced at the supports, and reactions and internal actions can be determined using only the principles of statics. For any set of loads on a statically determinate structure, there is one set of reactions and internal actions that satisfies equilibrium, i.e. there is a single load path.
