Tensegrity Structures: Form, Stability, and Symmetry

di Jing Yao Zhang (Autore)

Makoto Ohsaki (Autore)

Springer Verlag, Japan, 2015

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.

• Autore: Jing Yao Zhang, Makoto Ohsaki
• Editore: Springer Verlag, Japan
• Collana: Mathematics for Industry
• Anno: 2015
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 300 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9784431548126

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