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Design of adaptive structures through energy minimization: extension to tensegrity

This paper gives a new formulation to design adaptive structures through total energy optimization (TEO). This methodology enables the design of truss as well as tensegrity configurations that are equipped with linear actuators to counteract the effect of ...

2021

Research on a New Class of Planar Tensegrity Trusses Consisting of Repetitive Units

Yafeng Wang

Tensegrity structure is a prestressed self-equilibrated system consisting of compressed struts and tensioned cables. Planar truss is one of the most common forms of engineering structures with a wide application. This paper proposes a new class of planar t ...

2020

Pure geometrical consideration for bridge design in the early 20th century

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

By reviewing some of the reinforced-concrete structures built in the early 20th century, this paper questions the geometrical aspects surrounding their design. It is well established that in the case of Robert Maillart’s designs, he relied on the logic of ...

Construction History Society of America2015

Toward development of a biomimetic tensegrity footbridge

Ian Smith, Nicolas Willy Veuve, Seif Dalil Safaei

Biomimetic structures interact with their environment, change their properties, learn and self-repair, thereby providing properties that are similar to living organisms. Interactions with the environment involve unique challenges in the field of computatio ...

International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)2014

Evaluating two model-free data interpretation methods for measurements that are influenced by temperature

Ian Smith, Ngoc Thanh Trinh, Irwanda Laory

Interpreting measurement data to extract meaningful information for damage detection is a challenge for continuous monitoring of structures. This paper presents an evaluation of two model-free data interpretation methods: moving principal component analysi ...

Elsevier2011

Configuring and enhancing measurement systems for damage identification

Ian Smith

Engineers often decide to measure structures upon signs of damage to determine its extent and its location. Measurement locations, sensor types and numbers of sensors are selected based on judgment and experience. Rational and systematic methods for evalua ...

Elsevier2009

Modal parameter identification for a GFRP pedestrian bridge

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Dynamic experiments were conducted on an all-FRP composite pedestrian bridge. The structure was excited by impact and human-induced vibrations. The peak-picking method and stochastic subspace identification method were used to extract structural dynamic ch ...

2008

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