On the forces that cable webs under tension can support and how to design cable webs to channel stresses

Guy Bouchitté, Ornella Mattei, Graeme W. Milton +1

In many applications of Structural Engineering the following question arises: given a set of forces ${\mathbf{f}}_1,{\mathbf{f}}_2,\dots ,{\mathbf{f}}_N$ applied at prescribed points $\ma…