… in constant internal force and stiffness conditions

… in constant internal force and stiffness conditions#

\[\Delta L = \cfrac{NL}{EA}\]

This is treated in chapter 2.6 of the book Engineering Mechanics Volume 2 (Hartsuijker and Welleman, 2007).

Instructions from lecture#

This topic is presented in: a lecture available from start to 0:12:00 here (TU Delft login required). The slides used in this lecture are available here and the and the solution of the second guided exercise is available here.

Exercises#

The exercises including in the lecture above form a basic set of exercises to check your understanding.

For more practice, you can also do the following exercises: