On the forces that cable webs under tension can support and how to design cable webs to channel stresses.

ABSTRACT: In many applications of structural engineering, the following question arises: given a set of forces f ₁,  f ₂, …,  f _N applied at prescribed points x ₁,  x ₂, …,  x _N , under what constraints on the forces does there exist a truss structure (or wire web) with all elements under tension that supports these forces? Here we provide answer to such a question for any configuration of the terminal points x ₁,  x ₂, …,  x _N in the two- and three-dimensional cases. Specifically, the existence of a web is guaranteed by a necessary and sufficient condition

SUBMITTER: Bouchitte G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451972 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature