¶ Tensegrity_Icosahedron (3)
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RBF Definitions
(3)
"This is not the behavior we are used to in structures of
our previous experiences. These compression members do not
behave like conventional engineering beams. Ordinary beams
deflect locally or, if fastened terminally in tension to
their building, tend to contract their buildings in axial
asymmetry. The tensegrity ‘beam’ does not act independently
but acts only in concert with ‘the whole building,’ which
contracts only symmetrically when beam is loaded. The
tensegrity system is synergetic: a behavior of the whole
unpredicted by the behavior of the parts. Old stone-age
columns and lintels are energetic and only interact locally
with whole buildings. The whole tensegrity icosahedron
system, when loaded, contracts symmetrically, and because
of this its parts get symmetrically closer to one another;
therefore gravity increases as of the second power and
the whole system gets uniformly stronger. This is the way
atoms behave."
¶ Citations
- Synergetics Illustration "82, caption. 1967 TENSEGRITY SECS \href{https://www.buckyverse.org/en/synergetics/content/chapters/600-structure#section-652.54}{652.54} + 55
