Tensegrity: Structural Systems for the Future - Softcover

Motro, René

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0080973132 ISBN 13: 9780080973135

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012

Synopsis

The word tensegrity results from the contraction of 'tensional' and 'integrity', a word created by Richard Buckminster Fuller. He went on to describe tensegrity structures as 'islands of compression in an ocean of tension', and René Motro has developed a

About this title

About the Author:

René Motro is a Professor at University Montpellier II. He is also Head of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering Laboratory and Head of the "Lightweight Structures for Architecture" research team at School of Architecture Languedoc Roussillon, bo

Review:

To explain the importance of tensegrity, Mamoru Kawaguchi, President of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures, writes in his review: ‘Foldable Tensegrities is a topic unique to this book, since it is a result of the author’s study for more than ten years. The information in this chapter may be helpful in research of deployable structures. In the final chapter on Actuality of Tensegrity he confirms that tensegrity is now applicable to architecture as an established structural system, while it can be applied to other fields as well.’

Stefan J. Medwadowski, Past President of the IASS, states in his review: ‘I am convinced that this volume will go a long way toward making the concept, the theory and the practicalities of tensegrity much more accessible. The design professionals will be able to design better structures. The interested non-professionals will experience the great pleasure of being able to say “I understand why the Hisshorn tower stands up .’

About this edition

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0080973132
• ISBN 13: 9780080973135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258