Buckminster fuller's tensegrity structures and Clerk Maxwell's rules for the construction of stiff frames

DOI10.1016/0020-7683(78)90052-5zbMath0377.73076MaRDI QIDQ1246310

C. R. Calladine

Publication date: 1978

Published in: International Journal of Solids and Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7683(78)90052-5

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74K10: Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.)

74E30: Composite and mixture properties

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