• Title of article

    Dihedral ‘star’ tensegrity structures

  • Author/Authors

    Zhang، نويسنده , , J.Y. and Guest، نويسنده , , S.D. and Connelly، نويسنده , , R. and Ohsaki، نويسنده , , M.، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2010
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    1
  • To page
    9
  • Abstract
    This paper presents conditions for self-equilibrium and super stability of dihedral ‘star’ tensegrity structures, based on their dihedral symmetry. It is demonstrated that the structures are super stable if and only if they have an odd number of struts, and the struts are as close as possible to each other. Numerical investigations show that their prestress stability is sensitive to the geometry realisation.
  • Keywords
    Tensegrity structure , Dihedral symmetry , Self-equilibrium , stability , Block-diagonalisation
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Serial Year
    2010
  • Journal title
    International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Record number

    1388211