Experimental investigation of the softening-stiffening response of tensegrity prisms under compressive loading

Composite Structures

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 234-243

  Amendola, A ^a   Carpentieri, G ^a   de Oliveira, M ^b   Skelton, R E ^b   Fraternali, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assembling methods; Compressive response; Elastic softening; Elastic stiffening; Periodic lattices; Tensegrity prisms

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

ASSEMBLING METHOD; COMPRESSIVE RESPONSE; ELASTIC SOFTENING; ELASTIC STIFFENING; PERIODIC LATTICES; TENSEGRITIES;

PRISMS;

EID: 84905057977     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2014.06.022     Document Type: Article

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