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Tensegrity Stuctures Week1

Tensegrity is a structural principle based on isolated compressed members within a continuous net of tension. Tension stabilizes compression and allows for large stiffness to weight ratios. Tensegrity structures are efficient, deployable, and find inspiration in biology. They use unusual longitudinal member arrangements to achieve strength without members touching. Richard Buckminster Fuller, David Georges Emmerich, and Kenneth Snelson are considered the inventors of tensegrity structures, which demonstrate self-equilibrium through multidirectional tension rather than dependence on gravity or external supports.

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Tensegrity Stuctures Week1

Tensegrity is a structural principle based on isolated compressed members within a continuous net of tension. Tension stabilizes compression and allows for large stiffness to weight ratios. Tensegrity structures are efficient, deployable, and find inspiration in biology. They use unusual longitudinal member arrangements to achieve strength without members touching. Richard Buckminster Fuller, David Georges Emmerich, and Kenneth Snelson are considered the inventors of tensegrity structures, which demonstrate self-equilibrium through multidirectional tension rather than dependence on gravity or external supports.

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Tensegrity

1 Tension + Integrity
Definition
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 Tensegrity is a structural principle
based on the use of isolated
components in compression inside
a net of continuous tension, in such
a way that the compressed
members (usually bars or struts) do
not touch each other and the
prestressed tensioned members
(usually cables or tendons)
delineate the system spatially.
The Benefits of Tensegrity
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Tension stabilizes :-
 Compression Members loses stiffness when loaded.
 Tension member gains stiffness when loaded.
 No Bending moment
 Large stiffness to mass ratio can be achieved by
increasing the number of tension members.

Tensegrity structures are efficient:-


 Efficiency of a structure increases.
 Tensegrity structures use longitudinal members
arranged in a very unusual pattern to achieve
maximum strength.
The Benefits of Tensegrity
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Tensegrity structures are deployable.


 Compression members can be disjointed or
connected with ball joints.
 High operational and portability advantages.
 Small volume.

Facilitates high precision control


Tensegrity Structures motivated from biology
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Strongest Natural Fiber


Beta Pleated Sheets
Amino Acid Matrix
Joints in Tensegrity Structures
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Example

 As an illustration, the fig. shows a


tantalizing sculpture by Kenneth
Snelson, the discoverer of the floating

compression. The bars floating in the


air, without any contact with a

‘solid’ support.
The Origin
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 Three men have been considered the


inventors of tensegrity:

 Richard Buckminster Fuller

 David Georges Emmerich

 Kenneth D. Snelson.

 was a structure consisting of three bars, seven


cords and an eighth cable without tension
serving to change the configuration of the
system, but maintaining its equilibrium.
The Evolution
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 Kenneth D. Snelson focused his work on the


sculptural and aesthetic aspects.

 He avoided very deep physical and


mathematical approaches

 He developed very different configurations,

asymmetrical and non conventional.

 Fuller and Emmerich took a different approach


studying the different possible typologies of tensegrity,
mainly spherical and one-dimensional systems.
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Various Forms
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Basic Principle
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 Tensegrity structures are based on a completely different approach.

 Instead of the “weight and support” strategy, they are made as a


“system of equilibrated omnidirectional stresses”

 They do not have to be supported as they are self-equilibrated and


pre-stressed.

 They are not depending on gravity factors for their own equilibrium;
the tension created by the attraction of the Earth is replaced by the
multidirectional tension of their members.
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 Each strut is acted upon by the tension of the cords.

 As it is a three-dimensional system, in each end of the strut we

should have at least three cables attached to the node.


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