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On the additive manufacturing, post-tensioning and testing of bi-material tensegrity structures
A. Amendola, E. Hernandez-Nava, R. Goodall +3
An investigation on the additive manufacturing and the experimental testing of 3D models of tensegrity prisms and columns is presented. An electron beam melting facility (Arcam EBM…
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…
Universal formulae for the limiting elastic energy of membrane networks
Bernd Schmidt, Fernando Fraternali
We provide universal formulae for the limiting stretching and bending energies of triangulated membrane networks endowed with nearest neighbor bond potentials and cosine-type dihed…