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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Tensegrity"”.
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Optimization of tensegrity structures
… and especially looks into the performance of tensegrity systems compared to regular trusses. Volume is the objective to minimize and a wide range of constraints can be considered from the required mechanical constraints to more architectural ones. The resulting nonlinear non-convex …
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Kinematic Analysis of Tensegrity Structures
Tensegrity structures consist of isolated compression members (rigid bars) suspended by a continuous network of tension members (cables). Tensegrity structures can be used as variable geometry truss (VGT) mechanisms by actuating links to change their length. This paper will present a new method of …
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Modeling and Control of Tensegrity-Membrane Systems
Tensegrity-membrane systems are a class of new bar-tendon-membrane systems. Such novel systems can be treated as extensions of tensegrity structures and are generally lightweight and deployable. These two major advantages enable tensegrity-membrane systems to become one of the most promising …
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Tensegrity space structures : static, kinematic and stability behaviour
… an in depth study of the design and behaviour of tensegrity space structures. It deals with various aspects of these systems including form-finding and analysis. The dynamic relaxation method is employed to develop a software solution for the design and analysis of tensegrity systems with a focus …
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Design of an aluminum plate-based tensegrity bike parking canopy
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Evolutionary Based Methodology for Form -Finding and Design of Tensegrity Structures
… package which can both create and optimize tensegrity structures, by adding structural analysis and optimization criteria to fitness evaluation. As an example, tensegrity towers for mobile communication are designed.
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Dynamics and Control of a Tensegrity System in Low-Earth Orbit
Tensegrity is the name given to a system of interconnected bars and tendons that can form a flexible self-standing structure. Its flexibility is due to the ability of the bars to move near-independent to each other, movement that can be caused by controlled tension forces in the tendons or external …
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Multi-Layered Randomized Architected Materials (MLRAM) as damage detection indicators for tensegrity structures
… can serve as a visual indicator of damage for tensegrity structures. Four primary objectives are developed to perform the research presented in this dissertation. The first objective focuses on the design and fabrication of a novel two-layered architected material, called the Multi-Layered …
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Active control of tensegrity structures and its applications using Linear Quadratic Regulator algorithms
… explores the utilization of active control for tensegrity systems in order to achieve an adaptable structure. To start, a background of the physical characteristics of these structures is given along with the methods which are used to find their form. Next, the different methods which have been …
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Design, Fabrication and Testing of Fiber-Reinforced Cellular Structures with Tensegrity Behavior using 3D Printed Sand Molds
… in bending applications by incorporating tensegrity behavior using long continuous fibers. The designs are inspired by the hierarchical cellular structure composition present in pomelo fruit and the structural behavior of tensegrity structures. A design method for analyzing and predicting …
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A Comprehensive Entry, Descent, Landing, and Locomotion (EDLL) Vehicle for Planetary Exploration
… of EDLL is achieved by a single multifunctional tensegrity structure. The concept uses same fundamental concept as the ADEPT (Adaptable Deployable Entry and Placement Technology) deployable heat shield but replaces the standard internal structure with the structure from the tensegrity-actuated …
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Optimisation et prédimensionnement des treillis, arcs, poutres et câbles sur base d'indicateurs morphologiques; application aux structures soumises en partie ou en totalité au flambement
… Vincent, “A design methodology for lattice and tensegrity structures based on a stiffness and volume optimization algorithm using morphological indicators”, International Journal of Space Structures, Volume 32, issue: 3-4, p. 226-243.
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Towards an architecture for teaching virtues, values and ethics
… virtues, values and ethics. My theory of edu-tensegrity is derived from the architectural concept of tensegrity, which uses tension and compression as a building strategy (e.g., London’s geodesic millennium dome; Melbourne’s soccer stadium); models inductive thinking rather than deductive …
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Morpho : a self-deformable modular robot inspired by cellular structure
… via deformation. Our design is based on the Tensegrity model of cellular structure, where active filaments within the cell contract and expand to control individual cell shape, and sheets of such cells undergo large-scale shape change through the cooperative action of connected cells. Such …
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Genetic Regulation of Retinal Cells by Variation of Underlying Elastic Modulus
… called, by Donald Ingber and Buckminster Fuller, tensegrity and is likened to a tent erected in different soils. The tent poles act as the skeleton with the outer covering as the membrane, the poles create tension on the pegs and, if they are not planted in firm ground, the tent snaps back. It has …
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2D timelapse and 3D fluorescence microscopy with applications to vascular tissue engineering
… in flow-induced structural changes based on tensegrity arguments. The early responses in the nuclear calcium and structure demonstrated in this study may be important for the shear-induced gene regulation.
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Material INTO Practice, Practice ONTO Body and OUT TO Space; Exploration of sequins as a spatial concept through a new embellishment technique
… the body. This new embellishment technique, ‘the tensegrity technique’, embodies notions of space and fashion theory and discusses how clothing, and by extension embellishment when used on a garment, draws a en on to how we occupy and move through the space of the world. This thesis is driven by …
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Modelling and Control of Complex Structures: From Ebatronics to Electromechanical Devices and Their Industrial Applications [Modellazione e controllo di strutture complesse: Dall'ebatronica ai dispositivi elettromeccanici e alle loro applicazioni industriali]
… di identificazione del sistema delle strutture tensegrity. Le strutture di tensegrità sono combinazioni uniche di elementi solidi di compressione e di trazione, in cui gli elementi solidi sono tenuti in posizione con l'aiuto di elementi di trazione. L'adattabilità alla forma e le …
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Imagination in the public domain: The case of the homeless workers movement (MTST) in São Paulo, Brazil
… collective imagination as a dynamic tensegrity ─ a concept borrowed from architecture and applied in psychology and organizational studies ─ to indicate the mobile tensional arrangement of interconnected memories, present possibilities, and future projections. Reflecting on the case …
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