Funicular curve
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Funicular curve
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In architecture, the funicular curve is an approach used to design the compression-only structural forms using an equivalence between the rope with hanging weights and standing arch with its load. This duality was noticed by Robert Hooke in 1675. If the hanging rope carries just its own weight, the resulting curve is a catenary. In graphic statics, a funicular polygon is a graphic method of finding out the line of action for a combination of forces applied to a solid body at different points, a
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