Tensegrity Systems

• Main Authors: Oliveira, Mauricio C. (Author), Skelton, Robert E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Systems theory.; Mechanical engineering.; Vibration.; Control engineering systems.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Control , Robotics, Mechatronics.; Systems Theory, Control.; Structural Mechanics.; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74242-7

Tensegrity Systems discusses analytical tools to design energy efficient and lightweight structures employing the concept of "tensegrity." This word is Buckminister Fuller's contraction of the words "Tensile" and "Integrity," which suggests that integrity or, as we...

Table of Contents:

• Motivation
• Analysis of static tensegrity structures
• Design of compressive structures
• Design of bending structures
• Analysis of tensegrity dynamics
• Closed-loop control of tensegrity structures.