21 April 2010

FEA and tensegrity form-finding: an update

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA) developed a unified approach through Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and unconstrained non-linear programming for form-finding and static analysis of tensegrity structures.




The source code (written in Ada95) and an associated text are available for downloading on: http://www.arcaro.org/tension/tensegrity/tensegrity.zip.