The stiffness of tensegrity structures

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications)

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-66

  Guest, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

prestress; tangent stiffness; tensegrity

Indexed keywords

PRE-STRESS; TANGENT STIFFNESS; TENSEGRITIES; TENSEGRITY; TENSEGRITY STRUCTURE; TWO SOURCES; ZERO STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 79551521190     PISSN: 02724960     EISSN: 14643634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imamat/hxq065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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