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ARCHIVE OF APPLIED MECHANICS
Volume 92, Issue 9, Pages 2525-2548Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00419-022-02192-4
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Tensegrity; Form finding; Adaptive structures; Tensegrity lattices; Tensegrity metamaterials
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- Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata within the CRUI-CARE Agreement
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The passage from artistic interest to practical applications of tensegrity structures is documented in this article, highlighting the development of modern tensegrity metamaterials and the diverse range of applications. The importance of tensegrity structures and their potential for future research is emphasized.
We try to make a long way short by proceeding per exempla from Kenneth Snelson's sculptures and Richard Buckminster Fuller's coinage of the term tensegrity to modern tensegrity metamaterials. We document the passage from initial interest in tensegrity frameworks for their visual impact to today's interest, driven by their peculiar structural performances. In the past seventy years, the early art pieces and roofing structural complexes have been followed by formalization of the principles governing the form-finding property of 'pure' tensegrity structures and by engineering hybridization leading to a host of diverse practical applications, such as variable-geometry civil engineering structures, on-earth and in-orbit deployable structures and robots, and finally to recent and promising studies on tensegrity metamaterials and small-scale tensegrity structures.
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