Under what condition is a rigidly connected planar frame both stable and statically determinate?

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19 Jan 2019
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28 May 2026

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For a rigid-jointed plane frame to be stable and statically determinate, the relationship (3m + r) = 3j must hold true, where m represents the number of members, r the number of reaction components, and j the number of joints.

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