Free-standing Tension Structures (Spon Research)

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Free-Standing Tension Structures: From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems - CRC Press Book

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Summary Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for innovation.

From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-strut Systems provides the background engineering needed to produce these wonderful structures. Providing a complete background to the underlying structural engineering theories of tensegrity, this book will prove invaluable for all architects and engineers working on tensile structures.

23 The Incredible Lightness of Tension Structures

Table of Contents Preface Part I: Geometrical Characterisation of Basic Cable-strut Systems 5. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click on download.

From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-Strut Systems

This paper proposes geometric rules to describe geometry of a class of deployable structures, which is named Deployable Tension-Strut Structure DTSS and applies these rules to generate new forms of DTSS through a computer-based method. These geometric rules are found by observing kinematics characteristics of the proposed DTSSs. An algorithm is developed for applying this shape grammar to generate other design options of DTSSs, which involve kinematic chains of struts.


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Examples are used to illustrate the successful use of the algorithm to generate various new forms of DTSS. The paper shows that the kinematic conditions of DTSSs can be translated into geometric rules and these purely geometric rules can be used to generate various similar kinematic alternatives of DTSS.

Deployable Tension-Strut Structures: Structural Morphology Study and Alternative Form Creations

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