Download or read book Design and Construction of a Tensegrity Tower A Visual and Statistical Case Study of a Tensegrity System written by Angelina Aziz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Report from the year 2017 in the subject Engineering - General, grade: 1,7, Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe - University of Applied Sciences, language: English, abstract: Until now, tensegrity structures receive less importance in civil engineering, but they are more po- pular with the visual arts. Tensegrities are of interest in structural design studies because of their lightweight property, aesthetic and modern look. Usually, the structures are built in such a way that struts are connected, which might not be the original definition for tensegrity. Open tensegrity systems must, in order to be stable, provide forces to the foundation or to secondary constructions that are beyond the scope of the forces resulting from their own weight and the external loads. Open systems have the advantage that the pressure elements don’t have to be used as diagonals, as in closed systems. As a result, shorter pressure sections are possible with open systems, which can be executed with a smaller cross section. A closed tensegrity system is a self-sufficient array of struts and tendons, arranged in such a way that the struts and tendons enforce an ongoing structural integrity in the overall assemblage. These are termed as “real” tensegrity systems. Closed systems are, regardless of their storage, inherently stable.
Download or read book Tensegrity Systems written by Robert E. Skelton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses analytical tools for designing energy efficient and lightweight structures that embody the concept of tensegrity. The book provides both static and dynamic analysis of special tensegrity structural concepts, which are motivated by biological material architecture. This is the first book written to attempt to integrate structure and control design.
Download or read book Tensegrity Structures and their Application to Architecture written by Valentín Gómez Jáuregui and published by Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensegrity structures are really intriguing: bars floating in the air, without any contact to a solid support, attached only by wires to other bars… that are also floating in the air! The aim of this work is to serve as an introduction to such an atypical kind of structure. It tries to explain everything about the controversial origins and polemic fatherhood; tensegrities from various fields, other than Architecture, structural principles, characteristics, advantages and weakness; precedent and current works and patents; and finally, some new proposals, proving that it is possible to find some applications to architectural and engineering purposes. In conclusion, this work tries to be a guide and reference to a new world of structural possibilities that is blooming and finding its path.
Download or read book Design and Analysis of Tall and Complex Structures written by Feng Fu and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The design of tall buildings and complex structures involves challenging activities, including: scheme design, modelling, structural analysis and detailed design. This book provides structural designers with a systematic approach to anticipate and solve issues for tall buildings and complex structures. This book begins with a clear and rigorous exposition of theories behind designing tall buildings. After this is an explanation of basic issues encountered in the design process. This is followed by chapters concerning the design and analysis of tall building with different lateral stability systems, such as MRF, shear wall, core, outrigger, bracing, tube system, diagrid system and mega frame. The final three chapters explain the design principles and analysis methods for complex and special structures. With this book, researchers and designers will find a valuable reference on topics such as tall building systems, structure with complex geometry, Tensegrity structures, membrane structures and offshore structures. Numerous worked-through examples of existing prestigious projects around the world (such as Jeddah Tower, Shanghai Tower, and Petronas Tower etc.) are provided to assist the reader’s understanding of the topics. • Provides the latest modelling methods in design such as BIM and Parametric Modelling technique. • Detailed explanations of widely used programs in current design practice, such as SAP2000, ETABS, ANSYS, and Rhino. • Modelling case studies for all types of tall buildings and complex structures, such as: Buttressed Core system, diagrid system, Tube system, Tensile structures and offshore structures etc.
Download or read book Tensegrity written by René Motro and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word tensegrity results from the contraction of ‘tensional’ and ‘integrity’, a word created by Richard Buckminster Fuller. He went on to describe tensegrity structures as ‘islands of compression in an ocean of tension’, and René Motro has developed a comprehensive definition which is ‘systems in a stable self equilibriated system comprising a discontinuous set of compressed components inside a continuum of tensioned components’. This publication represents the life work of a leading exponent of a revolutionary and exciting method of structural design. * Represents the life work of a leading exponent of a revolutionary and exciting method of structural design* Applicable to architecture as an established structural system, can also be applied to other fields* Design professionals will be able to design better structures. Interested non-professionals will experience the great pleasure of being able to say "I understand why the Hisshorn tower stands up"
Download or read book Tensegrity Structures written by Jing Yao Zhang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To facilitate a deeper understanding of tensegrity structures, this book focuses on their two key design problems: self-equilibrium analysis and stability investigation. In particular, high symmetry properties of the structures are extensively utilized. Conditions for self-equilibrium as well as super-stability of tensegrity structures are presented in detail. An analytical method and an efficient numerical method are given for self-equilibrium analysis of tensegrity structures: the analytical method deals with symmetric structures and the numerical method guarantees super-stability. Utilizing group representation theory, the text further provides analytical super-stability conditions for the structures that are of dihedral as well as tetrahedral symmetry. This book not only serves as a reference for engineers and scientists but is also a useful source for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. Keeping this objective in mind, the presentation of the book is self-contained and detailed, with an abundance of figures and examples.
Download or read book Tensegrity Structures Design Methods written by Oren Vilnay and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This general introduction presents an original general method for the design of tensegrity structures, the first configurations of which were found by trial and error. The book begins with two-dimensional tensegrity structures, particularly tensegrity nets, tensegrity chains, tensegrity rings and tensegrity arches. These are then developed to original configurations of spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity slabs, primitive spatial tensegrity arches, and primitive tensegrity domes, as well as more elaborate spatial tensegrity structures such as tensegrity cylindrical shells, slim tensegrity domes, tensegrity vaults, and tensegrity caps. Presents a robust new approach to the design of tensegrity structures Extends tensegrity structures to new three-dimensional configurations Tensegrity Structures Design Methods suits structural, civil, and mechanical engineers and architects, as well as graduate students. Oren Vilnay is Professor Emeritus and was founder and head of the Department of Structural Engineering at Ben Gurion University Israel. He is also former head of the Structural Engineering Section at Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. Leon Chernin is Lecturer at the University of Dundee. He was granted a PhD in Structural Engineering from the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology. His research activities encompass both physical testing and numerical modelling.
Download or read book Free Standing Tension Structures written by Binbing Wang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for innovation. Free-standing Tension Structures: From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-strut Systems provides the background engineering needed to produce these wonderful structures. Providing a complete background to the underlying structural engineering theories of tensegrity, this book will prove invaluable for all architects and engineers working on tensile structures.
Download or read book Design of Tensegrity Structures for Shape Changing Applications written by Kaila Roffman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In space applications, lightweight, deployable structures are frequently studied and developed to meet launch vehicle constraints. This is particularly true for very large-scale structures, where the dimensions and volume of launch vehicle fairings can severely limit the in-space scale of structures without deployment. Tensegrity structures are very promising for such applications, offering a high stiffness-to-mass ratio and deployability through actuation of changing member lengths. Tensegrity structures are self-equilibrated, pre-stressed structures. Comprised of struts and cables, tensegrity members are modeled as uniaxial, with struts carrying compression and cables carrying tension, meeting at nodes modeled as frictionless ball joints. A tensegrity form is characterized by sets of nodal coordinates and member force densities (or forces), while a tensegrity configuration refers to how the members are connected between the nodes. Much of the literature on tensegrity structures focuses on the form-finding problem--seeking an equilibrated combination of nodal coordinates and force densities for a particular configuration. A wide variety of approaches to solving the form-finding problem are described in the literature. In general, the form-finding problem is intrinsically formulated to seek only a single equilibrated form for a particular tensegrity configuration. This is sufficient for many static applications of tensegrity structures, where only one form would be necessary. However, tensegrity structures can take on a wide variety of forms for a particular configuration, and little research has been done to-date exploring the variety of shapes a particular configuration can achieve. In shape changing applications, such as deployable structures, understanding the wider variety of shapes a structure can achieve could provide valuable insight as to how these structures can best be used. This dissertation has two main parts. First, analytical and numerical approaches are developed which can be used to describe the range of achievable shapes (forms) a particular tensegrity configuration can achieve. In the analytical approach, a minimal set of design variables describing the shapes is first developed. This minimal set is then restricted, providing bounds on the design variables which limit the resulting shapes to only those which are also equilibrated. For configurations too complex to solve analytically, a numerical approach is developed. This numerical approach can work with any set of design variables and needs only a single known equilibrated shape to begin. This shape is used as a starting point, from which parametric lines (in terms of the design variables) are extended. These lines are used to seek new equilibrium shapes in the span of the design variables. The end result is a representative numerical dataset which approximates the range of achievable shapes a tensegrity structure can achieve. These approaches demonstrate not only that a particular tensegrity configuration can achieve a wide variety of shapes, but also that the extent of these shapes can be characterized. The second part of this dissertation focuses on additional analysis methods which can be used to design a tensegrity structure specifically for shape changing applications. Methods for incorporating member length constraints are developed, including the definition of special design variables. Additionally, a path planning approach is developed that identifies equilibrated shapes through which a tensegrity can move, starting from and ending at designated shapes. Finally, finite element models are developed and used to study the tensegrity's deflections (stiffness) under station-keeping loads, as well as its natural frequencies of vibration. These tools are used in a demonstrative case study, investigating the potential utility of a modular tensegrity structure as a structural backbone of a parabolic reflector on the same scale as the James Webb Space Telescope. The resulting tensegrity structure exhibits structural characteristics comparable to if not better than those of existing parabolic reflectors in space applications. This case study not only shows the utility of the analysis methods developed when selecting a variety of design parameters with a particular application in mind, but also demonstrates that tensegrity structures have great potential for use in deployable, shape changing applications.
Download or read book An Introduction to Tensegrity written by Anthony Pugh and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tensegrity Structures written by Musa Abdulkareem and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Free Standing Tension Structures written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects are constantly looking for new methods to create large indoor spaces unhindered by columns and other supports. Tensile and cable-strut structures are one method of producing such spaces. They also enable the creation of different shaped spaces allowing architects more scope for innovation. Free-standing Tension Structures - From Tensegrity Systems to Cable-strut Systems provides the background engineering needed to produce these wonderful structures. Providing a complete background to the underlying structural engineering theories of tensegrity, this book will prove invaluable for all architects and engineers working on tensile structures.
Download or read book Tensegrity Tower written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book System ICT Security Policy and the Implementation by Local Authorities in Malaysia written by Mohd Farizul Mat Ghani and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: A, , course: Doctor of Philosophy in Informatics, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this project is to investigate and resolve problems related to the implementation of the security policy in Marang District Council. Furthermore, the ICT Security Policy System is to be designed, developed in order to assist the Information Technology Department (BTM). In addition, these documents must be compliant to the ISO 27001 standard and the Information Technology Security and Communication Policies for the Public Sector which is developed by MAMPU. The ICT Security Policy System is a web based system. All results would be presented and discussed. ICT Security Policy is a common topic that is being discussed in the public sector, because security incidents happen to organizations that offer online services to the public. These problems or incidents are also affecting the IT Department (BTM) at Marang District Council (MDM), as we also provide computer and internet facilities to our users. Based on the research findings, including inputs gathered from the respondents from Marang District Council, these problems can be reduced by providing a computerized ICT Policy document guideline, creating user awareness programs and by enforcing these ICT Policies.
Download or read book Strategies for Sustainable Architecture written by Paola Sassi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filling a gap in existing literature on sustainable design, this new guide introduces and illustrates sustainable design principles through detailed case studies of sustainable buildings in Europe, North America and Australia. The guide will provide the reader with a deeper understanding of the design issues involved in delivering sustainable buildings, and giving detailed description of the process of integrating principles into practice. Approximately one hundred case studies of sixty buildings, ranging from small dwellings to large commercial buildings, and drawn from a range of countries, demonstrate best current practice. The sections of the book are divided into design issues relating to sustainable development, including site and ecology, community and culture, health, materials, energy and water. With over 400 illustrations, this highly visual guide will be an invaluable reference to all those concerned with architecture and sustainability issues.
Download or read book Computing in Civil and Building Engineering 2014 written by Raymond Issa and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prefab Architecture written by Ryan E. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prefab Architecture . . . is beyond theory, and beyond most of what we think we know about pods, containers, mods, and joints. This book is more than 'Prefabrication 101.' It is the Joy of Cooking writ large for the architecture and construction industries." From the Foreword by James Timberlake, FAIA THE DEFINITIVE REFERENCE ON PREFAB ARCHITECTURE FOR ARCHITECTS AND CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS Written for architects and related design and construction professionals, Prefab Architecture is a guide to off-site construction, presenting the opportunities and challenges associated with designing and building with components, panels, and modules. It presents the drawbacks of building in situ (on-site) and demonstrates why prefabrication is the smarter choice for better integration of products and processes, more efficient delivery, and realizing more value in project life cycles. In addition, Prefab Architecture provides: A selected history of prefabrication from the Industrial Revolution to current computer numerical control, and a theory of production from integrated processes to lean manufacturing Coverage on the tradeoffs of off-site fabrication including scope, schedule, and cost with the associated principles of labor, risk, and quality Up-to-date products featuring examples of prefabricated structure, enclosure, service, and nterior building systems Documentation on the constraints and execution of manufacturing, factory production, transportation, and assembly Dozens of recent examples of prefab projects by contemporary architects and fabricators including KieranTimberlake, SHoP Architects, Office dA, Michelle Kaufmann, and many others In Prefab Architecture, the fresh approaches toward creating buildings that accurately convey ature and expanded green building methodologies make this book an important voice for adopting change in a construction industry entrenched in traditions of the past.
