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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”.
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Hartmann, F. (1985). Influence Functions. In: The Mathematical Foundation of Structural Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82401-2_7
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