Automatically assembled large-scale tensegrities by truncated regular polyhedral and prismatic elementary cells

• Published in: Composite structures Vol. 184; pp. 30 - 40
• Main Authors: Zhang, Li-Yuan, Li, Song-Xue, Zhu, Shi-Xin, Zhang, Bo-Yang, Xu, Guang-Kui
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.01.2018
• Subjects: Large-scale tensegrity; Mechanical properties; Structural assembly; Mechanical properties; Large-scale tensegrity; Structural assembly

As a novel type of reticulated structures, tensegrities have found various applications in science and engineering. In this paper, an ingenious assembly method is developed to construct large-scale tensegrities using truncated regular polyhedral tensegrities and prismatic tensegrities as elementary...