Prestress stability of triangulated convex polytopes and universal second-order rigidity

DOI10.1137/15M1054833MaRDI QIDQ4599766zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Connelly, Steven J. Gortler

Publication date 4 January 2018

Published in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04185

zbMATH Keywords

bar-and-joint frameworkequilibrium stressholeyhedronprestress stabilityrigidityspider tensegrityuniversal rigidity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Rigidity and flexibility of structures (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C25)

Abstract: We prove that universal second-order rigidity implies universal prestress stability and that triangulated convex polytopes in three-space (with holes appropriately positioned) are prestress stable.

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