Tensegrity: 60 years of art, science, and engineering

C Sultan - Advances in applied mechanics, 2009 - Elsevier
This chapter traces down the roots of the first man-made objects which resemble what are
nowadays known as tensegrity structures. It then shows how the tensegrity concept evolved …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanical response of 3-dimensional tensegrity lattices

JJ Rimoli, RK Pal - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Most available techniques for the design of tensegrity structures can be grouped in two
categories. On the one hand, methods that rely on the systematic application of topological …

Integral feasible prestress of cable domes

XF Yuan, SL Dong - Computers & structures, 2003 - Elsevier
Cable domes, first proposed by Geiger, belong to the indeterminate and prestressed
assembly. Thus, the geometric stability analysis and the optimal prestress design are very …

A reduced-order model for the dynamic and post-buckling behavior of tensegrity structures

JJ Rimoli - Mechanics of Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional approaches for modeling the behavior of tensegrity structures have their origin
either on form-finding applications or on the desire to capture their quasi-static behavior. As …

Geometrically nonlinear elasto-plastic analysis of clustered tensegrity based on the co-rotational approach

L Zhang, MK Lu, HW Zhang, B Yan - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2015 - Elsevier
An efficient finite element formulation is developed for geometrically nonlinear elasto-plastic
analyses of classical and clustered tensegrities based on the co-rotational approach. Large …

An algorithm for calculating the feasible pre-stress of cable-struts structure

J Guo, J Jiang - Engineering Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
A cable-struts structure consists of tension-only cables and compression-only struts. The
structural rigidity comes from the pre-stress. To determine the feasible pre-stress for the …

Nonlinear analysis and optimum design of cable domes

XF Yuan, SU Dong - Engineering Structures, 2002 - Elsevier
The cable dome, proposed by Geiger after developing Fuller's idea of tensegrity, is a new
type of space structure. This paper is concerned with the nonlinear analysis and the …

Tunable wave propagation by varying prestrain in tensegrity-based periodic media

RK Pal, M Ruzzene, JJ Rimoli - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the dynamic properties of one, two and three-dimensional tensegrity-
based periodic structures introduced in Rimoli and Pal (2017), which are here termed as …

Geometric and material nonlinear analysis of tensegrity structures

HC Tran, J Lee - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2011 - Springer
A numerical method is presented for the large deflection in elastic analysis of tensegrity
structures including both geometric and material nonlinearities. The geometric nonlinearity …

Non-linear dynamic analysis of tensegrity structures using a co-rotational method

S Faroughi, HH Khodaparast, MI Friswell - International Journal of Non …, 2015 - Elsevier
A new formulation is presented for the non-linear dynamic analysis of space truss structures.
The formulation is based on the dynamics of 3D co-rotational rods. In the co-rotation method …