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	700.00 TENSEGRITY
		Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors.
		Tensegrity structures are pure pneumatic structures and can accomplish visibly differentiated tension-compression interfunctioning in the same manner that it is accomplished by pneumatic structures, at the subvisible level of energy events.
		The two-axis tensegrity has been long known and is often successfully employed by mechanics as a flexible-membrane coupling sandwiched between two diametrically opposed yoke-ended shafts, precessionally oriented to one another in a 90-degree star pattern.
	www.rwgrayprojects.com /synergetics/s07/p0000.html (2765 words)

	Tensegrity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In mechanics and biomechanics, tensegrity or tensional integrity is a property of objects with components that use tension and compression in a combination that yields strength and resilience beyond the sum of their components.
		Tensegrity is the name for a synergy between a co-existing pairs of fundamental physical laws; of push and pull, and compression and tension, or repulsion and attraction.
		Tensegrity was a term used by Carlos Castaneda to refer to the modernized version of some movements called magical passes (a series of meditative stretches, stances and movements) developed by Native American shamans who lived in Mexico in times prior to the Spanish conquest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tensegrity (999 words)

	Holistic Geometry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tensegrity is the balancing of counteracting forces of tension and compression which gives structures their shape, strength and flexibility.
		The transformation of the 6-pentagonal tensegrity spheres (1-fold) to the 6-decagonal tensegrity spheres (2-fold) and its subsequent transformation into tensegrity rhombic triacontahedra is a model of this process.
		The end of each tensegrity strut is connected to the middle of the tension cable to which it is adjacent.
	www.fnd.org /pgs/geo/holistic_geometry.htm (2640 words)

	Tensegrity magische Bewegungen von Carlos Castaneda tensegrity und magische Bewegung
		Das Wort Tensegrity ist eine sehr zutreffende Bezeichnung, denn es ist eine Mischung aus zwei Begriffen, Tension und Integrität, welche die beiden treibenden Kräfte der magischen Bewegungen bezeichnen.
		Nähere Informationen dazu bitte in den Praxisgruppen erfragen.
		Den Anfang dieses Angebotes bildet eine Auswahl konkreter und abstrakter Formen magischer Bewegungen.
	www.goldrot.de (399 words)

	A Biotensegrity Explanation for Structural Dysfunction in the Human Torso
		Tensegrity geometry is a language I’ve used to interpret and represent anatomic form as a dynamic interplay of forces in four dimensions (bodies moving through time).
		If tensegrity is seen not so much a building system as it is a description of the most efficient way that all form is organized, in terms of most economical use of energy and material, then we would expect parsimonious nature to utilize this principle universally.
		He remarked to me that “… with tensegrity it's hard to manage all the prestressed tension lines in order to control motion dynamically in the way our muscles enable all of the bodily swings, rotations, pushes, pulls, and their variations.“ But there is a way to proceed.
	www.intensiondesigns.com /itd-biotensegrity/biotensegrity/papers/geometry_of_anatomy.html (4803 words)

	Tensegrity Models
		Tensegrity - a word combining tension and integrity - is a concept invented by Buckminster Fuller, American architect and inventor known for his geodesic dome design.
		The properties of a tensegrity structure are truly remarkable, and make sense as a basis for a new view of biomechanics.
		What I like about the combination of the tensegrity, anatomy train and myofascial meridian models is the way they remind us to look at the whole system, interconnections and interfaces.
	www.chiroweb.com /archives/20/26/07.html (991 words)

	Soda Straw Tensegrity Structures
		The assembled tensegrity structures are polyhedral forms which vividly illustrate the separate forces of tension and compression.
		The term "tensegrity" was coined from the phrase "tensional integrity" by Fuller, who proposed that the method could be applied to large architectural domes.
		An advanced mathematical analysis of tensegrity, and pointers to other references in the literature can be found in the articles "Rigidity" and "Mathematics and Tensegrity" by Robert Connelly.
	www.georgehart.com /virtual-polyhedra/straw-tensegrity.html (1303 words)

	Untitled Document
		Tensegrity is a phrase coined by the famous architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller to describe a structure composed of interconnected triangles.
		Combining the tensegrity matrices formed by the cells with that from bones, muscles and tendons interconnects the body as if it were one piece of fabric.
		When the tensegrity matrix of the body is altered by strains and impacts of an injury, the forces of compression and tension that were onced balanced become unbalanced.
	www.cozumel-click.com /chiro.html (2456 words)

	Ming the Mechanic: Tensegrity in the structure of the United States
		Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors.
		Tensegrity structures are distinguished by the way forces are distributed within them.
		Since and as Fuller writes, "Synergetics identifies tensegrity with high-tension alloys, pneumatics, hydraulics, and load distribution, and it is a confluence of optimum factors and the tensegrity system is always the equilibrious-balance phase," I'd like to understand this in vividly clear examples where information is gathered and push comes to shove in our societies.
	ming.tv /flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001415.htm (649 words)

	Scientific American: Feature Article: The Architecture of Life: January 1998
		Tensegrity structures are mechanically stable not because of the strength of individual members but because of the way the entire structure distributes and balances mechanical stresses.
		Tensegrity structures of both categories share one critical feature, which is that tension is continuously transmitted across all structural members.
		It is possible that fully triangulated tensegrity structures may have been selected through evolution because of their structural efficiency--their high mechanical strength using a minimum of materials.
	vv.arts.ucla.edu /projects/ingber/ingber.html (5404 words)

	tensegrity \| The Buckminster Fuller Institute
		Tensegrity is a building principle that was first described by the architect R. Buckminster Fuller and first visualized by the sculptor Kenneth Snelson.
		The cellular tensegrity model proposes that the whole cell is a prestressed tensegrity structure, although geodesic structures are also found in the cell at smaller size scales (e.g.
		In the cellular tensegrity theory, complex mechanical behaviors in cells and tissues emerge through establishment of a mechanical force balance between different molecular elements in the cytoskeleton and ECM that maintains the cell in a state of isometric tension.
	www.bfi.org /our_programs/bfi_community/tensegrity (306 words)

	Carlos Castaneda’s Tensegrity—Moving Toward Inner Silence: Conversations with Extraordinary Trees with Miles Reid & ...
		Tensegrity is the name now given to the magical passes: positions and movements of body and breath that were dreamt and stalked by men and women seers who lived in Mexico in ancient times, and passed on to Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs by their teacher, don Juan Matus.
		Fuller defined tensegrity as a combination of tensional integrity, the forces at work in architectural structures whose integrity and resilience are maintained by their flexible elements.
		Tensegrity is the subject of a book and four DVDs, as well as classes and workshops given in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Russia by the students of Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs, and their teaching companions.
	www.shambhalamountain.org /programs/766 (847 words)

	Advanced Systems with Composite Tensegrity Materials (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The tensegrity structures being created in the MAE labs were inspired by the molecular structure of the spider fiber, whose tension and compressive members are both made from amino acids and are arranged in a particular geometrical pattern that yields incredible strength (the spider fiber is nature's strongest natural fiber).
		It has been shown that tensegrity tends to be nature's basic building architecture, and the MAE labs at UCSD are developing the mathematical and engineering methods that will allow man to create large multifunctional material structures with similar efficiencies as those found in natural materials.
		Combinations of fibers of the tensegrity structure can serve as antennas by proper choice of fiber material (conducting paths), or as communication channels by choice of the conducting paths.
	www.darpa.mil /dso/thrust/matdev/smfm/ucalsd3.html (454 words)

	Building a tensegrity coffee table (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tensegrity structures use rigid members linked by flexible cables to make a rigid assembly.
		This is difficult since changing the tension in any member of a tensegrity structure changes the rest.
		The tensegrity base should be nice and rigid when you hold it up in the air.
	yakko.bme.virginia.edu /lab/tensegrity_coffee_table.htm (1482 words)

	"TENSEGRITY" AND MAGICAL PASSES, (July 1997) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tensegrity is the name given to the modern version of these movements, and the name of a series of three videos which have appeared over the last year and a half, drawing enthusiasts to filled-to-capacity workshops on Tensegrity in the U.S., Mexico, South America and Europe.
		The word Tensegrity is a combination of tension and integrity, the two driving forces of the magical passes.
		Carlos: The difference between the magical passes and aerobics or calisthenics is that the latter are designed to exercise the surface muscles of the body, while the magical passes are the interplay of relaxation and tension at a deep bodily level.
	www.newtimes.org /issue/9707/97-07-carlos.html (1116 words)

	A Technology for Designing Tensegrity Domes and Spheres
		The technology is based on the tensegrity approach to space frame design which strictly segregates compressive and tensile forces among the members of the frame.
		Effective use of tensegrity principles has been made by Geiger and Levy to design roofs which cover large areas.[Campbell94 reviews these approaches.] However these approaches result in essentially composite structures where a substantial portion of the structure is fabricated using non-tensegrity technologies.
		Tensegrity Solutions' most fundamental need is for the development or location of a concrete design problem where the proposed technology can be applied to enough advantage that it would be adopted.
	www.trip.net /~bobwb/ts/prospect/prospect.htm (5419 words)

	Tensegrity Software \| Java Graph Framework
		Visualize your data with the Java Graph Framework from Tensegrity.
		Tensegrity develops interactive Java software components for the visualization and modeling of business data, which can be integrated into your software applications quickly, cheaply and reliably.
		The company is serving numerous internationally-operating software development companies as well as companies with their own software development departments.
	www.tensegrity-software.com (425 words)

	Strings as structural elements? Engineers devise mathematics for new age structures
		"Although tensegrity structures are not yet part of mainstream design engineering, we think their amazing properties explain why you find this arrangement in spider webs, the protein cytoskeleton of cells, and many other biological structures," said Robert E. Skelton, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering.
		Unlike the arms and legs of a puppet, which hang from strings, the rods within a robotic tensegrity limb would be held in tension by a system of cables.
		A new generation of tensile-element materials has mechanical properties that are superior to those of traditional compressive elements, and the optimization algorithm by Skelton, Masic, and Gill incorporates the strength constraints of those materials.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-03/uoc--sas031006.php (790 words)

	Title page for ETD etd-12022002-155829
		Tensegrity structures consist of isolated compression members (rigid bars) suspended by a continuous network of tension members (cables).
		Tensegrity structures can be used as variable geometry truss (VGT) mechanisms by actuating links to change their length.
		Tensegrity structures are difficult to understand and mathematically model.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /theses/available/etd-12022002-155829 (201 words)

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		TENSEGRITY PRACTICE GROUPS A question that was asked recently was about the possibility for practitioners of Tensegrity to contact groups that get together to practice in different areas of the country.
		Tensegrity is not martial arts, where you have to rank people in the order in which they came, going from novices to very advanced students.
		For years and years in the past, I used to teach and give lectures on Tensegrity, and all I succeeded in doing was to supply a flock of cynical people with vocabulary, which they used for their own devices.
	www.gg.caltech.edu /~avalos/stuff/download/cleargreen/ccti.txt (744 words)

	Living Cells Act Consistently With Tensegrity Model
		Tensegrity architecture provides a structure, such as a living cell, with the ability to resist distortion of shape when a mechanical stress is applied to it.
		The findings confirmed their prediction that the stiffness of a cell must be closely related to the tensile stresses carried by microfilaments, an important part of the cytoskeleton.
		Jeffrey Fredberg, professor of bioengineering and physiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a senior member of the research team said, "The findings show that the stiffness of a cell is determined more by the tension in the microfilaments in a cell, rather than the stiffness of those filaments.
	unisci.com /stories/20013/0703012.htm (457 words)

	Implementing Principles by Balancing Configurations of Functions: a tensegrity organization approach
		The tensegrity structural consequence is reflected in the generation of geodesic polyhedra developed by R Buckminster Fuller(6).
		In seeking to use tensegrities, it may prove that it is more appropriate to treat them as extremely powerful conceptual "interrelators"for whatever projection onto them can be adequately sustained and comprehended within the collectivity concerned.
		It is useful, for example, to reflect on the elegance with which tensegrities can interrelate complex patterns of differences (separators) and similarities (connectors) at a time when society is torn between the simplistic extremes of personal or collective violence on the one hand, and sexual/ecstatic merger or planetary integration/union on the other.
	www.laetusinpraesens.org /docs/implprin.php (4155 words)

	Tensegrity: Does It Balance Your Life?
		More precisely defined, tensegrity is based on the synergy between coexisting pairs of forces, of push and pull, compression and tension, or repulsion and attraction.
		My partner in practice, Murray Johnstone, MD, has spent his research career proving that aqueous outflow is not a passive process, but one that continuously varies depending on the transient and steady forces that are applied to the trabecular meshwork and Schlemm’s canal.
		Tensegrity does it for me. All I need to do is put a value on each of the forces pulling me in different directions (how hard does each one pull), and the equilibrium happens by itself.
	www.aao.org /publications/eyenet/200705/opinion.cfm (616 words)

	Tensegrity and Geodesic Models, Yurts, Domes, and Tent Structures
		Robert Gillis was studying tensegrity and geodesics while living in a large suspended tent.
		It became clear to him that there was a practical way to apply tensegrity to structure.
		The tension network was removed from outside of the structure and transferred to the inside where the covering became the tension network.
	www.shelter-systems.com /tensegrity.html (332 words)

	Tensegrity Software \| Impprint
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	www.tensegrity-software.com /imprint.html (639 words)

	A Fuller Explanation: Chapter Fifteen geodesics to tensegrity
		Tensegrities can be derived from all polyhedra, whether regular, semiregular, high-frequency geodesic, or irregular, typically with one strut representing each edge of the polyhedron.
		Tensegrity structures satisfy our conceptual requirement that we may not have two events passing through the same point at the same time.
		In the tensegrity, edges all come within critical proximity of the location of a "vertex" and "twist by each other." Figure 15-11 illustrates the relationship between the tensegrtty icosahedron and its Platonic counterpart.
	www.angelfire.com /mt/marksomers/134b.html (874 words)

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