...Raman Goyal; Robert E. Skelton; Edwin A. Peraza Hernandez Tensegrities are prestressable trusses that have been proven to support various load distributions with minimum mass. This article presents a novel efficient method for designing lightweight tensegrities under local and global failure...

...Li-Yuan Zhang; Shi-Xin Zhu; Xiao-Fei Chen; Guang-Kui Xu Tensegrities have exhibited great importance and numerous applications in many mechanical, aerospace, and biological systems, for which symmetric configurations are preferred as the tensegrity prototypes. Besides the well-known prismatic...

... 23 01 2013 07 03 2013 An efficient numerical method is developed to analyze the mechanical responses of tensegrity structures subjected to various actuations that lead to large and highly nonlinear (e.g., hardening or softening) deformations. The proposed method, whose accuracy...

... to cruise at high speeds over long distances. In this paper, the structural foundation for the biomimetic morphing wing is a tensegrity structure. A preliminary procedure is presented for developing morphing tensegrity structures that include actuating elements. To do this, the virtual work method has been...