Beam theories are exploited worldwide to analyze civil, mechanical, automotive, and aerospace structures. Many beam approaches have been proposed during the las

This book proposes a novel, original condensation method to beam formulation based on the isogeometric approach to reducing the degrees of freedom to convention

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The authors and their colleagues developed this text over many years, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in structural analysis courses at the Daniel G