Question

Importance of approximate methods in structural analysis

Answer 1

Structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized.[1] Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machinesand natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a networkfeaturing many-to-many links, or a latticefeaturing connections between components that are neighbors in space.