Abstract: The work presented in this paper is part of a general research work, during which combinatorial representations based on graph and matroid theories were developed and then applied to different engineering fields. The main ...

Abstract: This paper provides geometric insight into the correlation between basic concepts underlying the kinematics of planar mechanisms and the statics of simple trusses. The implication of this ...

Abstract: This paper is a study of the duality between the statics of a variety of structures and the kinematics of mechanisms. To provide insight into this duality, two new graph representations are ...