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Prestress design for cable-strut structures by grouping elements
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Highlights A novel method for form-finding of cable-strut structures is developed. Structural members are grouped by symmetric property. Singular value decomposition is performed on equilibrium matrix. An excellent performance of presented method has been shown in the results.
Abstract Cable-strut structures, composed of cables in tension and struts in compression, are famous in space and civil engineering. The systems bear the external load and exhibit stiffness only when prestressed, so it is paramount to determine the prestress distribution. This paper presents a novel method to obtain the distribution of initial prestress in cable-strut structures with a given shape and topology. Singular value decomposition is first performed on the equilibrium matrix to obtain the independent self-stress modes. We group the structure by symmetry and decompose a second time to get the number of independent self-stress modes when the number of independent self-stress modes is larger than one. Finally, calculated prestress, expressed by the modes, should also conform to the prescribed member types and stability conditions. This new method shows excellent performance in several examples with different configurations and constraints.
Prestress design for cable-strut structures by grouping elements
Graphical abstract Display Omitted
Highlights A novel method for form-finding of cable-strut structures is developed. Structural members are grouped by symmetric property. Singular value decomposition is performed on equilibrium matrix. An excellent performance of presented method has been shown in the results.
Abstract Cable-strut structures, composed of cables in tension and struts in compression, are famous in space and civil engineering. The systems bear the external load and exhibit stiffness only when prestressed, so it is paramount to determine the prestress distribution. This paper presents a novel method to obtain the distribution of initial prestress in cable-strut structures with a given shape and topology. Singular value decomposition is first performed on the equilibrium matrix to obtain the independent self-stress modes. We group the structure by symmetry and decompose a second time to get the number of independent self-stress modes when the number of independent self-stress modes is larger than one. Finally, calculated prestress, expressed by the modes, should also conform to the prescribed member types and stability conditions. This new method shows excellent performance in several examples with different configurations and constraints.
Prestress design for cable-strut structures by grouping elements
Zhang, Qian (author) / Wang, Xinyu (author) / Cai, Jianguo (author) / Yang, Ruiguo (author) / Feng, Jian (author)
Engineering Structures ; 244
2021-02-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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