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Flexibility method
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<p>In <a href="/facts/Structural_engineering/Wj1vpoGh">structural engineering</a>, the flexibility method, also called the method of consistent <a href="/facts/Deformation_(mechanics)/xK7R59oI">deformations</a>, is the traditional method for computing member forces and <a href="/facts/Displacement_(vector)/jkmEfS3C">displacements</a> in structural systems. Its modern version formulated in terms of the members' flexibility <a href="/facts/Matrix_(mathematics)/qa8FI4ko">matrices</a> also has the name the matrix force method due to its use of member forces as the primary unknowns. </p>