Structures
REPORT OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF TOWER AND TRUNCATED TENSEGRITY SKELETONS
Manual pretensioning and construction scheme（Part 1）
2018 Volume 24 Issue 57 Pages 591-596
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2018 Volume 24 Issue 57 Pages 591-596
The authors have developed tensegrity frames that are stiff enough, as a structural skeleton, to support a membrane roof. A tower and a truncated pentagonal prism tensegrities were designed and constructed successfully. The paper reports the progress of their design, structural analysis and construction scheme checked with 1/10 scale model test. The authors insisted to manual pretensioning through the construction and it required special careful plan for tension introduction scheme.
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