Free-standing tension structures
Subtitle: from tensegrity systems to cable-strut systems
By: Binbing Wang.
Publisher: Spon Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London & New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Lightweight construction.; Cable structures.; Tensile architecture.
Description: "This book is the first to provide an in-depth investigation of tensegrity systems from a structural point of view using the law of mechanics for general pin-jointed systems with mechanisms. The inherent load-transfer properties are presented and the concepts are extended to cable-strut systems through a family of structurally efficient grid types. It also provides the first systematic study on the use of cable-strut polyhedra as building blocks and presents new engineering solutions by using lightweight grids and deployable functions, and shows how to extensively express polyhedral art in architecture with new concepts and a wide variety of new forms."--BOOK JACKET.