ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This study presents a modification of an earlier graphic procedure that proposed an exact method for analyzing continuous beams in First Order Theory without resolving equation systems. The modification introduced enables other, more spatially complex hyperstatic models to be calculated more easily than via conventional, manual calculation methods. Via graphic operations on some determined surface areas with the data from the model, and using drafting instruments, stresses and deformations may be calculated simultaneously. It is also observed that the results obtained without using such instruments are also sufficiently accurate. The procedure could therefore be used in the initial stages of design of such structures to determine their mechanical behaviour. This study also suggests that other graphic methods could be drawn up that would enable different types of building structure to be analysed exactly in just a few operations.
