Structural Order in Space - 1984 - Ture Wester

Preface A great deal of the subject matter in this book goes back to the mid 1970's where, among other things, an undergraduate project involving a 6 metre 'Fullerdome' made from triangular sheets of cardboard joined along the edges collapsed during extreme deformations of the jointless open vertices. Not least because of this, students began to experiment with the structural behaviour of the Platonic polyhedra. These and other experiments led to re-cognition of the fact that plate structures ar…