Tensegrity_Icosahedron (3)

RBF Definitions

(3)

"This is not the behavior we are used to in structures of

our previous experiences. These compression members do not

behave like conventional engineering beams. Ordinary beams

deflect locally or, if fastened terminally in tension to

their building, tend to contract their buildings in axial

asymmetry. The tensegrity 'beam' does not act independently

but acts only in concert with 'the whole building,' which

contracts only symmetrically when beam is loaded. The

tensegrity system is synergetic: a behavior of the whole

unpredicted by the behavior of the parts. Old stone-age

columns and lintels are energetic and only interact locally

with whole buildings. The whole tensegrity icosahedron

system, when loaded, contracts symmetrically, and because

of this its parts get symmetrically closer to one another;

therefore gravity increases as of the second power and

the whole system gets uniformly stronger. This is the way

atoms behave."

Citations

C17985