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Saint-Venant's principle justifies idealising a load application because

  • A.Stress is uniform everywhere
  • B.Local effects propagate along the whole structure
  • C.Far from the load, only the resultant matters
  • D.Loads never affect the structure locally

Answer: C

At distances comparable with the member's own dimensions, two statically equivalent load systems produce the same stress field. It is what allows a bolt pattern to be replaced by a single force, provided the region of interest is not the joint itself.

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