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Kinetic Structures of Cyclic Knots and Links as further Development of Tensegrity Principle

Author(s) -

Dmitri Kozlov

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

procedia engineering

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.32

H-Index - 74

ISSN - 1877-7058

DOI - 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.11.939

Subject(s) - tensegrity , connection (principal bundle) , compression (physics) , structural engineering , bending , space (punctuation) , development (topology) , geometry , engineering , topology (electrical circuits) , mathematics , materials science , computer science , composite material , mathematical analysis , combinatorics , operating system

The paper explores knots and links of resilient filaments and their connection with tensegrity structures. “Classical” tensegrity of compressed struts and stretched tendons derives from basic principle of woven structures and X modules, which correspond with contacting crossings of resilient knots and links. Vertical and horizontal bending of X modules and joining together their free ends make it possible to substitute tensegrity systems of separated compressed and stretched elements with a complex resilient bended structures with pure compression in the contact points of their crossings. Such structures topologically equivalent to complicated cyclic knots and links and can transform in space taking on the shapes of different surfaces.

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