Equilibrium conditions of a class I tensegrity structure

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 112 II, Issue , 2002, Pages 927-950

  Skelton, Robert E ^a   Williamson, Darrell ^b   Han, JeongHeon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Equilibrium conditions; Linear algebra; Statics; Structure; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

AIRFRAMES; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS;

CLASS I TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE; TENSEGRITY EQUILIBRIA; VECTOR SPACE;

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036914497     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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