¶ Truss
Index Entry
Truss:
“When later men learned that the structural strength at the surface was not provided by the ‘solid’ quality of the exterior shell, but by triangularly interstabilized lines of force operative within that shell, they perforated the shell with holes between the force lines. The minimum holes were triangular. The pattern of triangulated force lines, peppered with triangular holes in the hollowed out structural shell, became what we call a truss. We can say the, firstly, that the hollowing out automatically reduced the third power volumetric multiplication of relative weight increase of structures as they increase in respect to their primary linear dimensions.”
¶ Citations
- “Tensegrity,” PORTF.LIO + ART NEWS, p.124, Dec. '61
