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Each structural entity, that means each member, has got its own local co-ordinate system. This co-ordinate system is a three-dimensional right-handed Cartesian co-ordinate system.
The system provides for:
This chapter also deals with a group of co-ordinate systems that do not refer to a structural entity in the full meaning of the word, but that is very closely related to it. This group consists of co-ordinate systems used with cross-sections.