Bistable regimes in an elastic tensegrity system

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

Volumn 469, Issue 2154, 2013, Pages

  Micheletti, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmark; Bistability; Elastic tensegrity system

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; OPTICAL BISTABILITY;

BENCHMARK; ELASTIC ELEMENT; GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONS; PRE-STRAIN; PRE-STRESSED; REDUCED ORDER; SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODEL; TENSEGRITY SYSTEMS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 84877276903     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2013.0052     Document Type: Article

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