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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
Using the Argyris matrix formulation a concise and definite justification for the correctness of the use of groups of unknowns in the analysis of redundant structures is given. It is shown also that to consider groups of unknowns is equivalent to changing the basic system. These two intimately related concepts are applied to the force as well as to the displacement method.