Tensegrities and rotating rings of tetrahedra: A symmetry viewpoint of structural mechanics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1765, 2000, Pages 229-243

  Guest, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mechanisms; Structural mechanics; Symmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347372806     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0529     Document Type: Article

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