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SUMMARY:Understanding Tensegrity with an Energy Function - Professor Simon
  Guest
DTSTART:20221028T140000Z
DTEND:20221028T150000Z
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CONTACT:Jamie Clarkson
DESCRIPTION:The methods of analysis of pin-jointed structures that we teac
 h our first-year undergraduate students cannot explain why tensegrities st
 and up: this talk will explore a helpful complementary analysis.  The talk
  will explore the use of a simple quadratic ‘energy function’ to model
  pin-jointed structures that are stressed\; the function is clearly unphys
 ical\, but it is simple\, and wrong in a useful way.  Using the quadratic 
 function makes is straightforward to correctly capture the stiffness of th
 e inextensional modes of deformation in tensegrity structures that a simpl
 e analysis ignores.
LOCATION:CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building)
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