Castigliano's method
Teoremas de Castigliano
- Date
- 1875 · confidence high
- Place
- Turin, Italy
- Credited to
- Carlo Alberto Castigliano
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A method based on partial derivatives of elastic strain energy that computes displacements and forces in linear elastic structures, formulated by Italian engineer Carlo Alberto Castigliano.
What it led to
- standard tool of structural analysis in civil and mechanical engineering
- basis for later energy methods in strength of materials
- application in the calculation of bridges and truss structures
- integration into modern matrix methods of structural analysis