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Williot (Williot-Mohr) displacement diagram

Williot diagram · Verschiebungsplan · Mohr's correction of the Williot diagram

Made by
Victor Williot
Year
1877
Field
Engineering
Kind
Computing chart
Room
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Williot (Williot-Mohr) displacement diagram
Plate from Williot 1877, Notions pratiques sur la statique graphiqueInternet Archive, University of Wisconsin - Madison

See the original page — Abb. 35 (beside the truss, Abb. 34), printed p. 371 (leaf n385)

Published 1906 (A) and Mohr died in 1918, so life+70 ended in 1988 (B); the drawing on the page is Mohr's, not Williot's.

The data it needs

  • member identity · pair of joints
  • joint position geometry · quantitative · length
  • elongation input (signed) · quantitative · length
  • joint displacement output · vector · length

Built in 8 steps, as its maker described

whole article; not opened in this pass

Skeleton drawing, not the original plate

17 other forms share this skeleton

Source

Williot 1877, Notions pratiques sur la statique graphique

Attribution less certain: contested, or no single inventor recorded

Searches, not citations

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