Static analysis of prestressed tensegrity structures

ASME 2002 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2002

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 689-695

  Crane III, Carl D ^a   Duffy, Joseph ^a   Correa, Julio C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA BOLIVARIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Compliance; Self deployment; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

ANTIPRISMS; COMPLIANCE; EQUILIBRIUM EQUATION; NEWTONIANS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRE-STRESSED; SELF-DEPLOYMENT; TENSEGRITIES; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE; VIRTUAL WORKS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATIC ANALYSIS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036976432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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