Form finding of tensegrity structures based on familiesThe octahedron family
- Manuel Alejandro Fernández Ruiz
- Luisa María Gil-Martín
- Juan Francisco Carbonell Marquez
- Enrique Hernández Montes
- Baeza de los Santos, F. Javier (coord.)
- Gómez Sánchez, Yordhana (coord.)
Editorial: Editorial Club Universitario (ECU)
ISBN: 978-84-17924-58-4, 978-84-17924-22-5
Año de publicación: 2019
Páginas: 369-378
Congreso: International Conference on Mechanical Models in Structural Engineering (5. 2019. Alicante)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
Tensegrity structures are composed by pre-stressed pin-jointed compression (struts) and tensión (cables) members that are self-equilibrated. They have had a great development in the last years owing to their ingenious forms, lightweight, deployability and controllability. A challenge related to the design of tensegrity structures is the determination of the force densities during the form-finding process that leads to a stable tensegrity. In this work, the octahedron tensegrity is used as a source of new tensegrity forms. A family of tensegrity structures is a group of them that share a common connectivity pattern. A set of force densities that achieve an equilibrium shape of tensegrities based on the octahedron family was computed analytically. Several examples are shown.