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This book discusses analytical tools for designing energy efficient and lightweight structures that embody the concept of tensegrity. The book provides both static and dynamic analysis of special tensegrity structural concepts, which are motivated by biological material architecture. This is the first book written to attempt to integrate structure and control design. Tensegrity Systems discusses analytical tools to design energy efficient and lightweight structures employing the concept of "tensegrity." This word is Buckminister Fuller's contraction of the words "Tensile" and "Integrity," which suggests that integrity or, as we would say, stability of the structure comes from tension. In a tensegrity structure the rigid bodies (the bars), might not have any contact, thus providing extraordinary freedom to control shape, by controlling only tendons. Tensegrity Systems covers both static and dynamic analysis of special tensegrity structural concepts, which are motivated by biological material architecture.§Drawing upon years of practical experience and using numerous examples and illustrative applications, Robert Skelton and Mauricio C. de Oliveira discuss:§The design of tensegrity structures using analytical tools§The integration of tensegrity systems into a combined framework including structural design and control design§The rules for filling space (tesselation) with self-similar structures that guarantee a specific mechanical property are provided§Tensegrity Systems will be of interest to all engineers who design or control light-weight structures, including deployable and robotic structures, and shape controllable structures. Also, Engineers interested in the study of advanced dynamics will find new and useful algorithms for multibody systems.

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Book category Books in English Technology, engineering, agriculture Civil engineering, surveying & building Structural engineering

• Full title: Tensegrity Systems
• Author: Robert E. Skelton
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780387742410
• ISBN: 0387742417
• ID: 04066865
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Weight: 512 g
• Dimensions: 243 × 166 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. February 2009

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