Overview
Adopts a lucid while rigorous style appropriate for students and practicing engineers
Features practical guides and techniques for creating (form-finding), checking (stability), and designing a tensegrity structure
Discusses and illustrates fundamental theories and applications of tensegrity structures across architecture, mechanics, and biology
Reinforces concepts with Matlab codes for conducting numerical experimentation of the fundamental mechanisms
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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This book provides an in-depth, numerical investigation of tensegrity systems from a structural point of view, using the laws of fundamental mechanics for general pin-jointed systems with self-stressed mechanisms. Tensegrity structures have been known for decades, mostly as an art of form for monuments in architectural design. In Computational Modeling of Tensegrity Structures, Professor Buntara examines these formations, integrating perspectives from mechanics, robotics, and biology, emphasizing investigation of tensegrity structures for both inherent behaviors and their apparent ubiquity in nature. The author offers numerous examples and illustrative applications presented in detail and with relevant MATLAB codes. Combining a chapter on the analyses of tensegrity structures along with sections on computational modeling, design, and the latest applications of tensegrity structures, the book is ideal for R&D engineers and students working in a broad range of disciplines interested in structural design.
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Book Title: Computational Modeling of Tensegrity Structures
Book Subtitle: Art, Nature, Mechanical and Biological Systems
Authors: Buntara Sthenly Gan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17836-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17835-2Published: 15 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17838-3Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17836-9Published: 02 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 212
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 118 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mechanical Statics and Structures, Solid Mechanics, Mathematical and Computational Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering