Abstract: Transfer matrices are used widely for the dynamic analysis of engineering structures, increasingly so for static analysis, and are particularly useful in the treatment of repetitive structures for which, in general, the behaviour of a complete structure can be determined through the analysis of a single repeating cell, together with boundary conditions if the structure is not of infinite extent. For elastostatic analyses, non-unity eigenvalues of the transfer matrix of a repeating cell are the rates of decay of self-equilibrated loading, as ant...
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Mathematical analysis