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Bending dominated response of layered mechanical metamaterials alternating pentamode lattices and confinement plates
A. Amendola, G. Carpentieri, L. Feo +1
A numerical study on the elastic response of single- and multi-layer systems formed by alternating pentamode lattices and stiffening plates is presented. Finite element simulations…
Parametric Design of Minimal Mass Tensegrity Bridges Under Yielding and Buckling Constraints
Gerardo Carpentieri, Robert E. Skelton, Fernando Fraternali
This paper investigates the use of the most fundamental elements; cables for tension and bars for compression, in the search for the most efficient bridges. Stable arrangements of…
On the correspondence between 2D force networks, tensegrity structures and polyhedral stress functions
Fernando Fraternali, Gerardo Carpentieri
We formulate and discuss the relationship between polyhedral stress functions and internally self-equilibrated frameworks in 2D, and a two-mesh technique for the prediction of the…
Experimental investigation of the softening-stiffening response of tensegrity prisms under compressive loading
Ada Amendola, Fernando Fraternali, Gerardo Carpentieri +2
The present paper is concerned with the formulation of new assembly methods of bi-material tensegrity prisms, and the experimental characterization of the compressive response of s…
On the mechanical modeling of the extreme softening/stiffening response of axially loaded tensegrity prisms
Fernando Fraternali, Gerardo Carpentieri, Ada Amendola
We study the geometrically nonlinear behavior of uniformly compressed tensegrity prisms, through fully elastic and rigid--elastic models. The presented models predict a variety of…