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COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages 234-243Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2014.06.022
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Tensegrity prisms; Assembling methods; Compressive response; Elastic softening; Elastic stiffening; Periodic lattices
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- Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs [00173/2014]
- Italy-USA Scientific and Technological Cooperation ('Lavoro realizzato con il contributo del Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Direzione Generale per la Promozione del Sistema Paese')
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The present paper is concerned with the formulation of new assembly methods of bi-material tensegrity prisms, and the experimental characterization of the compressive response of such structures. The presented assembly techniques are easy to implement, including a string-first approach in the case of ordinary tensegrity prisms, and a base-first approach in the case of systems equipped with rigid bases. The experimental section shows that the compressive response of tensegrity prisms switches from stiffening to softening under large displacements, in dependence on the current values of suitable geometric and prestress variables. Future research lines regarding the mechanical modeling of tensegrity prisms and their use as building blocks of nonlinear periodic lattices and acoustic metamaterials are discussed. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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