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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 592958, 37 pages doi:10.1155/2011/592958 Research Article Analysis of Linearly Elastic Inextensible Frames Undergoing Large Displacement and Rotation Jaroon Rungamornrat and Peerasak Tangnovarad Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand Correspondence should be addressed to Jaroon Rungamornrat, jaroon.r@chula.ac.th Received 18 April 2011; Accepted 9 August 2011 Academic Editor: Mohammad Younis Copyright q 2011 J. Rungamornrat and P. Tangnovarad. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper presents an efficient semi-analytical technique for modeling two-dimensional, linearly elastic, inextensible frames undergoing large displacement and rotation. A system of ordinary differential equations governing an element is first converted into a system of nonlinear algebraic equations via appropriate enforcement of boundary conditions. Taylor’s series expansion is then employed along with the co-rotational approach to derive the best linear approximation of such system and the corresponding exact element tangent stiffness matrix. A standard assembly procedure is applied, next, to obtain the best linear approximation of governing nonlinear equations for the structure. This final system is exploited in the solution search by Newton- Ralphson iteration. Key features of the proposed technique include that i exact load residuals are evaluated from governing nonlinear algebraic equations, ii an exact for