Tensegrity Structures: Form, Stability, and Symmetry (Mathematics for Industry)

Zhang, Jing Yao Yao

ISBN 10: 4431563563 / ISBN 13: 9784431563563

Published by Springer, 2016

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pp. 300.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tensegrity Structures: Form, Stability, and Symmetry (Mathematics for Industry)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4431563563
• ISBN 13: 9784431563563
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

To facilitate a deeper understanding of tensegrity structures, this book focuses on their two key design problems: self-equilibrium analysis and stability investigation. In particular, high symmetry properties of the structures are extensively utilized. Conditions for self-equilibrium as well as super-stability of tensegrity structures are presented in detail. An analytical method and an efficient numerical method are given for self-equilibrium analysis of tensegrity structures: the analytical method deals with symmetric structures and the numerical method guarantees super-stability. Utilizing group representation theory, the text further provides analytical super-stability conditions for the structures that are of dihedral as well as tetrahedral symmetry. This book not only serves as a reference for engineers and scientists but is also a useful source for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Keeping this objective in mind, the presentation of the book is self-contained anddetailed, with an abundance of figures and examples.