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Frame and Form (estructura y forma) was born with the modest desire to promote and disseminate structural design culture. The content of this blog is based on small articles where synthesized information is provided about accomplishments , events, history, contests and curiosities of marked structural works like bridges or buildings. These capsules of information intended [...]

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29 December, 2008

Tensegrity, compression islands in a sea of tensions

tensegrity, basic principle named after Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) mid-twentieth century that applies to structures that are equipped with tensional integrity (Tensegrity = tensional + integrity). A Tensegrity system is one that is in a steady state self-balanced and consists of a set of discontinuous compression components within [...]