Advanced form-finding of tensegrity structures

Computers and Structures

Volumn 88, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 237-246

  Tran, Hoang Chi ^a   Lee, Jaehong ^a  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue problem; Form finding; Single value decomposition; Tensegrity structure

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUE DECOMPOSITION; EIGENVALUE PROBLEM; EQUILIBRIUM MATRIX; FEASIBLE SET; FORCE DENSITY; FORM-FINDING; NODAL COORDINATES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; RANK DEFICIENCY; SELF-EQUILIBRIUM; SINGLE VALUE DECOMPOSITIONS; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE;

PRESTRESSED BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SWITCHING SYSTEMS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 72149123384     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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