The Analysis of Fuselages of Arbitrary Cross‐section and Taper: A DSIR Sponsored Research Programme on the Development and Application of the Matrix Force Method and the Digital Computer Available to Purchase

The conditioning of the redundancy equations is discussed and a method is given for drastically reducing any serious coupling between primary redundancies originating at the same ring station. Making use of the latent root programme of the computer, a revised transformation matrix, for the definition of the primary redundancies, is developed for the specific cross‐sectional shape and geometry when this is markedly non‐circular. The method is illustrated by application to a number of sample cases. Coupling between redundancies at different ring stations is also discussed, but is not considered to be serious except with unusual patterns of frame flexibility.