This paper hands in a review of the basic issues about the statics of tensegrity structures.
Definitions and notation for the most important concepts, borrowed from the vast existing …

We show that there is a bar-and-joint framework G (p) which has a configuration p in the
plane such that the component of p in the space of all planar configurations of G has a cusp …

Based on the energy criterion and geometrical nonlinearity theory, this paper broadens
conventional concepts of structural stability to explain some non-generic stability …

The identification of finite mechanisms in statically and kinematically indeterminate
structures is, in general, a difficult problem. However, Kangwai and Guest [1999] showed …

This paper deals with the mechanisms in kinematically and statically indeterminate
reticulated systems. Knowledge of length variation amplitude for members in association …

Prestress stability is the key of whether a pin-jointed assembly could be transformed into a
tensegrity structure. This study developed an optimization model to investigate the prestress …

Structures presenting kinematical inderterminacy are usually called mechanisms. This paper
is entirely concerned with assemblies which reveal themselves to be mechanisms at a null …

The famous example of the double-Watt mechanism given by Connelly and Servatius raises
some problems concerning the classical definitions of higher-order flexibility and rigidity …

This study investigates second-order infinitesimal mechanisms and bifurcation paths of rigid
origamis with multiple-degree-of-freedom mechanisms. A truss model, consisting of pin …

Immobile linkages admitting only (possibly higher-order) infinitesimal mobility are shaky
structures. In the past, determination of the order of mobility or shakiness was usually …