¶ Tensegrity: Miniature Masts: Positive and Negative
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These were now demonstrable as consisting of both positive and negative tensegrities, simultaneously employed. Whereas either the positive or the negative tensegrity mast would independently provide the same overall compressional strut capability as did the two together, obviously either the positive or the negative tensegrity within the ‘solid’ combination must be doing all the ‘strut’ work at any one time-- the other is entirely superfluous, ergo redundant. Their alternate capabilities, being approximately equal, would alternately tend to exchange the loading task, thus generating an oscillating interaction of positive vs. negative load transferral which would expend the energies of their respective structural integrities, thus tending to self-interdeterioration (crystallization) of their combined alternating strut functioning longevity of structural capability.
TENSEGRITY- SECS. 654.61 (Gray) +02.
¶ Citations
- “Tensegrity,” PORTFOLIO + Art NEWS, p.122, Dec '61
