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The Cremona diagram is a graphical method used in statics of trusses to determine the forces in members.

Cremona diagram at Wikipedia
Cremona diagram for triangular truss - contains nice illustration of the procedure
O. Shai: Duality between Statical and Kinematical Engineering Systems, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, B.H.V. Topping and Z. Bittnar (Editors), Civil-Comp Press, Stirling, Scotland, 2002

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Theory	Elasticity equations
Forces and Stresses	Torsion · Flexure · Shear · Principal stress
Basic Statics	Beam equations · Moment area method · Vereschagin's rule · Stiffness matrix · Fixed end moments · Determinate statics · Indeterminate statics · Maxwell's theorem of reciprocal displacements · Betti's law
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Basic Dynamics	Damping · Mass matrix · Damping matrix
Energy Methods	External work and strain energy · Principle of work and energy · Virtual work method · Unit load method · Castigliano's Theorem
Approximate Methods	Moment distribution method
Graphical	Cremona Diagram

See Also	Computational analysis methods
Related Categories	Traditional Analysis Methods

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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cremona_diagram Cremona diagram] at Wikipedia
 * [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cremona_triangle_simple.svg Cremona diagram for triangular truss] - contains nice illustration of the procedure
+* O. Shai: [http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~shai/pdfs/dualityprague.pdf Duality between Statical and Kinematical Engineering Systems], Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, B.H.V. Topping and Z. Bittnar (Editors), Civil-Comp Press, Stirling, Scotland, 2002
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