| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research is concerned with analysis and design of tensegrity structures. We aim to establish a systematic and unified way to design tensegrity structures. To fulfil an allotted space by tensegrity structures, we proposed a general-purpose tensegrity assembly (tensegrity sheet) composed of repetition of simple fundamental units. From the sheet, we can produce shell-type structures such as tori, cylinders, paraboloids, spheres, ellipsoids, etc., by specifying the node locations and boundary conditions. For the design and analysis of tensegrity structures, we proposed a mathematical framework, from a network perspective, that can easily handle the change of structural configurations (add/delete/exchange members, change connection/shape, etc.). Some of the design and analysis problems such as minimal mass design and dynamical analysis are discussed under this mathematical formulation.
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