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However, there are many elements in truss structures, making it difficult to predict their importance. The global stiffness matrix contains the specific information of the structure and singularity of the matrix can reflect the safety status of the structure, so it is useful to evaluate the key elements based on the global stiffness matrix for truss structures. In this paper, according to the tangent stiffness-based method for the element importance, the square pyramid grid was chosen as an example, and the distribution rules of key elements under different support conditions, stiffness distributions, and geometric parameters were studied. Then, three common symmetric grid forms, i.e., diagonal square pyramid grids, biorthogonal lattice grids, and biorthogonal diagonal lattice grids, were selected to investigate their importance indices of elements. The principle in this work can be utilized in progressive collapse analysis and safety assessment for spatial truss structures.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym12061008","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,16]],"date-time":"2020-06-16T00:50:49Z","timestamp":1592268649000},"page":"1008","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Analysis of Key Elements of Truss Structures Based on the Tangent Stiffness Method"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Jian","family":"Feng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of C &amp; PC Structures of Ministry of Education, National Prestress Engineering Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}]},{"given":"Changtong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of C &amp; PC Structures of Ministry of Education, National Prestress Engineering Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}]},{"given":"Yixiang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Aerospace, The University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo 315000, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9784-5787","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qian","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of C &amp; PC Structures of Ministry of Education, National Prestress Engineering Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}]},{"given":"Fang","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of C &amp; PC Structures of Ministry of Education, National Prestress Engineering Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}]},{"given":"Jianguo","family":"Cai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of C &amp; PC Structures of Ministry of Education, National Prestress Engineering Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"947","DOI":"10.1002\/tal.1097","article-title":"Progressive collapse assessment of new hexagrid structural system for tall buildings","volume":"23","author":"Mashhadiali","year":"2013","journal-title":"Struct. 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