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<strong>The</strong> Beam <strong>Element</strong> in Large Displacements<br />

Assumptions:<br />

Plane sections initially normal to <strong>the</strong> neutral axis remain plane<br />

<strong>The</strong> longitudinal (ε ηη) <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> two shear stresses(ε ηξ , ε ηζ ) are <strong>the</strong> only non<br />

zero ones.<br />

A general 3D beam element would <strong>the</strong>n be:<br />

Institute <strong>of</strong> Structural Engineering <strong>Method</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Finite</strong> <strong>Element</strong>s II 37

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