Tensegrity Structures Design Methods

✍ Scribed by Oren Vilnay, Leon Chernin, Margi Vilnay

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This general introduction presents an original general method for the design of tensegrity structures, the first configurations of which were found by trial and error. The book begins with two-dimensional tensegrity structures, particularly tensegrity nets, tensegrity chains, tensegrity rings and tensegrity arches. These are then developed to original configurations of spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity slabs, primitive spatial tensegrity arches, and primitive tensegrity domes, as well as more elaborate spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity cylindrical shells, slim tensegrity domes, tensegrity vaults, and tensegrity caps.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
Tensegrity: literature survey
Part 1: Two-dimensional plane tensegrity structures
1 Kite structures
2 Tensegrity nets
3 Tensegrity chains
4 Tensegrity plane arches
5 Tensegrity rings
Part 2: Three-dimensional spatial tensegrity structures
6 Tensegrity slabs
7 Spatial tensegrity rings
8 Tensegrity vaults
9 Tensegrity cylindrical shells
10 Spatial tensegrity arches
11 Configuration of primitive tensegrity structures
12 Slim tensegrity domes
13 Tensegrity caps
14 Tensegrity domes
Part 3: Stable tensegrity structures: Tensstable structures
15 Two-dimensional tensstable arches
16 Three-dimensional tensstable structures
References
Index