For pin-jointed assemblies with many members or self-stress states, the form-finding
problem using conventional methods generally involves considerable computational …

As conventional approaches for calculating natural frequencies do not make full use of the
inherent symmetry of a structure, the rising degree of freedoms often leads to significant …

This study investigates the collapse resistance of the cable net structures. Compared to
conventional structures, the analysis of the cable net structures is rather complicated due to …

The stiffness of cable nets is conditioned by their states of prestress. The decrease of
prestress due to creep of cables determines the serviceability and load bearing capacity of …

Abstract The Moore-Penrose inverse has many applications in civil engineering, such as
structural control, nonlinear buckling, and form-finding. However, solving the generalized …

A great attraction of prestressed cable-strut structures is that the initial prestresses can
guarantee the structural stability. However, increasing the prestress level of these structures …

This study proposes a robust technique for large displacement analysis of slack cable
structures subjected to dynamic loadings using a novel method, entitled Node Relaxation …

Wave-based method for dynamic responses of net structures can provide analytic out-of-
plane responses in full frequency range, helping to avoid the problem of control spillover …

New internal mechanisms of a deployable structure could be generated, when the structure
undergoes significant transformations along its compatibility path. Because of such kind of …

An efficient group-theoretic method is proposed for the buckling analysis of symmetric
prestressed space structures. Tangent stiffness matrices and geometric stiffness matrices of …