¶ Tensegrity Structures
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Tensegrity Structures:
“… From the end of a compression member there is a little tension member going to the mid-part of the next compressional strut unit. The end tension members from two adjacent struts make a V-shape. We are used to fastening things into buildings in shear where structural members push. The members in tensegrity structures pull apart as the V of tension shows. Tensegrity structures are not fastened in shear. If I tighten up a turnbuckle it will tighten up the whole tension V-shape and therefore the structure will get bigger and not smaller when tensed more tightly. Each of the tension V’s get a little flatter. These structural behaviors are very typical of the energy interference patterns which structurally cohere all atoms. A strut is comparable to a vector energy action and its end is pulled by the center of mass of the next vector strut. Pulling the end of the vector strut changes its direction toward the center of the whole system. Thus each of the vectors is continually steered to encircle the same center. In the same way energy self-interference patterns result in locally regenerative structural systems as atoms.”
TENSEGRITY- SECS, 652.01 (Gray)+13
¶ Citations
- RBF in Tel Aviv Address, December 1967. (Zodiac 19).
