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Tensegrity systems are innovative systems in the field of Civil Engineering. Architects have been spurred on by their light weight and their apparent transparency. “A tensegrity system is system in a stable self equilibrate state comprising discontinuous compressed components inside a continuum set of tensioned components”.
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Aoual, M.N.K., Quirant, J., Motro, R. (2004). Towards Tensegrity Systems Design. In: Frémond, M., Maceri, F. (eds) Novel Approaches in Civil Engineering. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45287-4_29
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