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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2022
      January 2022
      ISBN:
      9780511843297
      9780521879101
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511843297
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 350 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Mathematics, Engineering, Engineering Design, Kinematics, and Robotics, Discrete Mathematics Information Theory and Coding
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    This introduction to the theory of rigid structures explains how to analyze the performance of built and natural structures under loads, paying special attention to the role of geometry. The book unifies the engineering and mathematical literatures by exploring different notions of rigidity - local, global, and universal - and how they are interrelated. Important results are stated formally, but also clarified with a wide range of revealing examples. An important generalization is to tensegrities, where fixed distances are replaced with 'cables' not allowed to increase in length and 'struts' not allowed to decrease in length. A special feature is the analysis of symmetric tensegrities, where the symmetry of the structure is used to simplify matters and allows the theory of group representations to be applied. Written for researchers and graduate students in structural engineering and mathematics, this work is also of interest to computer scientists and physicists.

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    'Rigidity theory mathematicians and structural engineers are like two branches of a tribe that separated long ago. In the intervening time, the language and knowledge of each group has evolved to where concepts no longer align and common terms no longer have common meanings. As a result, when they interact today, confusion reigns. Frameworks, Tensegrities and Symmetry is a guide that both groups can use to understand the other.'

    William F. Baker - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

    'The authors promise 'an attempt to build a bridge between two cultures' and they have done a remarkable job of this unenviable task. Requiring only a minimum of mathematical and engineering prerequisites the book develops intuitively, and rigorously, the rigidity theory of both bar frameworks and tensegrity frameworks and applies this theory to analyse built structures. Two masters of the field have carefully designed the book to move seamlessly between the analysis and synthesis of specific structures and providing the general, generic and symmetric theories.'

    Anthony Nixon - Lancaster University

    ‘This excellent book unifies the engineering and mathematical literature by exploring different notions of rigidity - local, global and universal - and how they are interrelated. A lot of revealing examples accompany the mathematically precise description, hence the book can be recommended to researchers and students of mathematics, structural engineering, physics and computer science alike.’

    Andras Recski Source: Mathematical Reviews

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    • 1 - Introduction
      pp 1-6
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